Server-side Swift with Kitura
summary
IBM-backed Kitura is a Swift web framework that generates an Xcode scaffolded server you can run locally, exposes an Express-like router API, and ships packages for MySQL/Postgres, auth, templating and diagnostics. The talk shows a to‑do REST API built with isomorphic Swift Codable (same models used client and server) that runs fine, and recommends packaging into Docker + Kubernetes for horizontal scaling. Caveat: ecosystem is very new and Foundation parity on Linux still needs heavy work.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:47What is Swift
- 2:07iPhone
- 2:47Online persistence
- 3:24CloudKit
- 4:22Languages
- 4:57Linux
- 5:13Cloud
- 5:31Instant Linux
- 5:54Guitar Workshop
- 6:09Kitura
- 8:16How it works
- 9:31The app
- 10:52What does this mean
- 12:33This is a game changer
- 12:49Web server
- 14:22Enterprise scale
- 15:27The downsides
- 16:33Swift Corelibs
- 18:09What can we do
- 19:46Performance
