Kitura - What's Next?

A talk given at ForwardSwift in SF on 2 March 2017 about Kitura and the future of Server Side Swift

Transcript

1. Kitura - What’s Next? David Okun, Developer Evangelist, IBM 1 @dokun24
2. Agenda • Server Side Swift State of the Union • What is Kitura & how has it grown? • Kuery Demo • WebSockets Demo • ????????????? Demo • Fin @dokun24 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 @dokun24 of 17 3
4. RESTful APIs @dokun24 4
5. 2015 - Open Source Swift @dokun24 5
7. Introducing…Kitura • Kitura is a RESTful API framework written in Swift • Open sourced February 2016 • v1.0 in September 2016 • Also introduced Bluemix Swift Runtime 7 @dokun24
10. OMG IT ME
11. …and Kitura now • Stability alongside Swift 3, Foundation and LibDispatch • Support for most major DataStores • WebSockets • Protocol Buffers • Native Querying Language (Kuery) 11 @dokun24
13. Swift-Kuery • Kuery is a pluggable SQL database driver • Focus on making the API “Swifty” • Great to support an ORM buildout 13 @dokun24
14. Currently supported DBs 14 @dokun24
15. Before we start • PostgreSQL running locally on machine • Accessible at localhost:5432 15 @dokun24
16. Pre-loaded table 16 @dokun24
17. Demo - Kuery 17 @dokun24
18. WebSocket Connections • Allows asynchronous sending and receiving of data packets through an opened connection • RFC 6455 18 @dokun24
19. Before we start • http://www.websocket.org/ echo.html • Everything you had before 19 @dokun24
20. Demo - WebSockets 20 @dokun24
21. Serverless Swift!!! • Yep! • Uses Apache OpenWhisk, which just so happens to be deployed on… 21 @dokun24
22. 22 @dokun24
23. Before we start • Open an account on Bluemix 23 @dokun24 https://console.ng.bluemix.net/registration
24. Live Demo - OpenWhisk 24 @dokun24
25. Recap • Swift is maturing super fast • For Kitura: long term support = use your existing knowledge • https://www.github.com/dokun1 • http://www.kitura.io • https://console.ng.bluemix.net/registration 25 @dokun24
26. 26 @dokun24 • T-shirts!!! • Stickers!!! • JS Developers!!! • Paul Hudson!!! While I’m here…
27. Thank you!!!! @dokun24 27 @dokun24