Year of the Server with Tim Condon - Part 2

In this second part of our interview with Tim Condon, we follow up on Async/Await and Vapor 5, Amazon and server-side Swift, hosting, frameworks, development, and what we look forward to in 2021.

Show Notes

Guest

• Tim Condon
  • Twitter @0xTim

Youtube Video - https://youtu.be/VMNvZtw9OyU

Related Episodes

• Episode 74 - Year of the Server with Tim Condon - Part 1
• Episode 72 - Functional Programming with Daniel Steinberg
• Episode 49 - Vapor 4 with Tibor Bödecs
• Episode 34 - Server-Side Swift with Tim Condon
• Episode 8 - Choosing the Right Backend with Erik Gillespie

Related Links

• The Future of Swift on the Server by Tim
• Building the next version of the Smoke Framework by Simon Pilkington
• Swift Server Work Group
• Use Swift on AWS Lambda with Xcode - WWDC 2020
• Getting started with async/await in Swift by Eneko Alonso
• Soto for AWS
• Smoke Framework
• Building the next version of the Smoke Framework by Simon Pilkington
• Kitura
• Chaqmoq
• Swift Log
• Swift Metrics
• Swift Tracing
• Vapor Queues
• Vapor Queues Fluent Driver
• A Complete Guide to Swift Development on Linux By Jari Koopman
• Swift Setup from Steven Van Impe and PWS Academy
• iOS Developer Happy Hour by Allen W
• AppForce1 Podcast

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Vapor 5 and Async/Await

• How Async/Await affects SwiftNIO
• How Async/Await affects EventLoopFuture
• Performances vs Maintainability 
• What is the timeline on Async/Await

Amazon and Server-Side Swift

• What is Soto?
• What Amazon web services Soto supports?
• How to integrate Soto into your sever-side Swift project?
• What is Smoke?

Important Server-Side Frameworks

• Smoke, Kitura, and Chaqmoq
• Logging and Metrics
• Job and Queue Management
• Swift Tracing

Server-Side Swift in the Real World

• Where to Host Your Server-Side App
• Is Server-Side Swift Production Ready
• Growth of Server-Side Acceptance in 2020
• Differences from iOS Development
• Scaling Your Server-Side Application
• Can You Develop in Swift outside of Xcode?

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Tim Condon

Engineer, geek, triathlete. @codevapor core team. Founder @brokenhandsio. Server-side Swift @kodecodev. Organiser @SwiftServerConf @NSManchester He/him

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