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The session titled "Explore the Swift on Server ecosystem" at WWDC 2024 provides a comprehensive overview of using Swift for server-side development. Swift is highlighted as an excellent language for server applications due to its C-like performance, low memory footprint, and strong typing, which contribute to robust and reliable distributed systems. The session discusses Swift's concurrency features, which are crucial for handling highly concurrent workloads typical in cloud services.
Swift is used extensively across Apple's cloud services, including iCloud, keychain, and the App Store, handling millions of requests per second. The session also covers the Swift server workgroup, which was established to promote the use of Swift for server applications and to support the ecosystem's growth by managing an incubation process for server packages.
For those interested in building server applications with Swift, the session provides insights into popular packages and tools available in the ecosystem, such as networking libraries, database drivers, and observability tools. The session also demonstrates building a service using these packages.
For more detailed information, you can watch the session Explore the Swift on Server ecosystem (00:00:07).
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.
What’s new in Swift
Join us for an update on Swift. We’ll talk about workflow improvements that make you more productive, and new and modernized library APIs for fundamental programming tasks. We’ll show examples of Swift adoption throughout more layers of the software stack. Finally, we’ll explore new language features for both improving approachability of concurrency, and achieving peak performance when you need it.
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