Kitura: Beyond Hello World

I give you a real life example of how Kitura can handle your needs in a language you are familiar with.

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1. Kitura: Beyond “Hello,
   World!”
   David Okun, Developer Evangelist, IBM
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2. Agenda
   • Why Swift?
   • Why Kitura?
   • Live Demo
   • Questions & Answers
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3. AboutMe.swift
   • Joined IBM November 2016
   • Learned about Kitura
   February 2016
   • Previously worked on Mobile
   Tech at IDscan Biometrics Ltd.
   (London, UK)
   • Introduced to server work by
   Parse
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4. Why Swift?
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6. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/swift.html
   http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pbbs/benchmarks/nBody.html
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7. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/swift.html
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8. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/swift.html
   http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pbbs/benchmarks/nBody.html
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9. Why Kitura?
   • Written like Express.js
   • IBM & Apple collaborate on
   Swift
   • Foundation just works
   • Libdispatch just works
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10. Developer Experience
    Client Side Data Side
    Server API Layer
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12. Before The Demo
    • What is an API contract?
    • What is a microservice?
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13. A Diagram
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    NFL.com
    Node.js Scraping
    Microservice
    Kitura iOS Client
    

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14. Live Demo
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15. Recap
    • Swift performance makes it a hot candidate
    • Long term support = use your existing knowledge
    • Score Microservice: https://github.com/dokun1/nfl-score-scraper
    • This Kitura Demo: https://github.com/dokun1/
    KituraMicroservicesDemo
    • http://www.kitura.io
    • Follow me on Twitter: @dokun24
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16. Questions & Answers
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17. Thank you!!!
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