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 of 17 1
2. Agenda • Why Swift? • Why Kitura? • Live Demo • Questions & Answers of 17 2
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 of 17 3
4. Why Swift? of 17 4
5. of 17 5
6. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/swift.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pbbs/benchmarks/nBody.html of 17 6
7. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/swift.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pbbs/benchmarks/nBody.html of 17 7
8. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/swift.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pbbs/benchmarks/nBody.html of 17 8
9. Why Kitura? • Written like Express.js • IBM & Apple collaborate on Swift • Foundation just works • Libdispatch just works of 17 9
10. Developer Experience Client Side Data Side Server API Layer of 17 10
11. of 17 11
12. Before The Demo • What is an API contract? • What is a microservice? of 17 12
13. A Diagram of 17 13 NFL.com Node.js Scraping Microservice Kitura iOS Client
14. Live Demo 14
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 15
16. Questions & Answers 16
17. Thank you!!! 17