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What happened?

Based on the provided context, here are some key highlights from the sessions mentioned:

  1. Explore the Swift on Server ecosystem:

    • Building a Service: Demonstrated how to create a service using Swift, including setting up a Vapor application and handling HTTP requests (Build a service).
    • Database Drivers: Discussed how to safely interact with databases using Swift, including preventing SQL injection attacks through Swift's string interpolation feature (Database drivers).
    • Observability: Highlighted the importance of observability in troubleshooting, including logging, metrics, and tracing to diagnose issues like PSQL errors (Observability).

  2. Track model changes with SwiftData history:

    • Fundamentals: Explained how SwiftData history records transactions and changes, preserving the order of changes and using tokens to track the last processed transaction (Fundamentals).
    • Transactions and Changes: Detailed how transactions group changes and how tokens can become expired if associated data is deleted (Transactions and changes).
    • Custom Stores: Provided guidance on implementing custom data stores that support SwiftData history, including defining transactions, changes, and tokens (Custom stores).

  3. Meet FinanceKit:

    • Best Practices: Discussed best practices for handling financial data, including using history tokens to manage long-running queries and avoid duplicated events (Best practices).

  4. Explore App Store server APIs for In-App Purchase:

    • Subscriptions and Offers: Announced a new version of the transaction history endpoint that returns all transactions for a customer, enabling new use cases like showing full purchase history and auditing consumable balances (Subscriptions and Offers).

These sessions cover a range of topics from server-side Swift development to tracking data changes and handling financial transactions, providing developers with tools and best practices to enhance their applications.

Explore the Swift on Server ecosystem

Explore the Swift on Server ecosystem

Swift is a great language for writing your server applications, and powers critical services across Apple’s cloud products. We’ll explore tooling, delve into the Swift server package ecosystem, and demonstrate how to interact with databases and add observability to applications.

Meet FinanceKit

Meet FinanceKit

Learn how FinanceKit lets your financial management apps seamlessly and securely share on-device data from Apple Cash, Apple Card, and more, with user consent and control. Find out how to request one-time and ongoing access to accounts, transactions, and balances — and how to build great experiences for iOS and iPadOS.

Explore App Store server APIs for In-App Purchase

Explore App Store server APIs for In-App Purchase

Learn how to leverage your server to build great In-App Purchase experiences with the latest updates to the App Store Server API, App Store Server Notifications, and the open source App Store Server Library. After a recap of current APIs, we’ll introduce updated endpoint functionality, new transaction fields, and a new notification type. We’ll also discuss best practices for the purchase lifecycle, delivering content, and targeting offers, so you can become a server power user.