Swift In The Cloud

This book covers technical details of all aspects of creating and running Swift language applications in cloud computing environments. The techniques described combine the concepts that motivated support for cloud hosted Swift code with plenty of examples of real code that the reader can run and experiment with. The book is written by the developers who produced the support for Swift in the Cloud; written for developers as a practical guide for how to quickly create server applications using Swift and run them on pay-as-you-go cloud infrastructure. 

The book covers:

• Elements and structure of the open technology Swift.org project
• IBM's Bluemix PaaS environment
• Swift code in the Swift Sandbox in the cloud
• Using Docker Containers to Run Swift
• Using the Cloud Foundry Buildpack for Swift
• Swift and Kitura for web applications
• Running Kitura-CouchDB, Kitura-Redis, and other modules
• Swift Packages and the Swift Package Manager
• Event Driven Programming with Swift and OpenWhisk

LEIGH WILLIAMSON is a technical leader in the IBM Cloud team who aids clients with cloud computing strategy and execution. JOHN PONZO is an IBM Fellow and the primary technical collaborator between Apple and IBM in refining Swift for both mobile client and cloud services development. PATRICK BOHRER is technical lead for IBM's global efforts around Swift@IBM Engineering. RICARDO OLIVIERI is an expert in the adoption of the Swift language on the server and the IBM cloud. KARL WEINMEISTER helped extend Swift from its mobile roots to become a full-stack language ecosystem. SAMUEL KALLNER is technical lead of the Kitura project at the IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel.