Kitura - What's Next?

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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

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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
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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

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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

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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