Serverless Mobile Backend as a Service in Swift

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Introduces a Swift MBaaS built on OpenWhisk and IBM Cloud with live demos of a Swift backend, iOS SDK, and an open-source pipeline called Dark Vision that slices video into frames, tags images with Watson, and stores results. Claims per-request pricing with a free tier and shows an example estimate: 50,000 calls at ~500 ms using 0.5 GB memory. Notes cold starts of ~2–3s, current action timeouts around 15s, and that Docker actions handle larger workloads; demos mostly work but encounter occasional dashboard/network hiccups.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 5:38Optimal utilization & granular pricing
3. 12:26Support for different invocation models
4. 18:53API Gateway support

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