Swift is now simpler than ever to use for end-to-end development. Developers wanting a local development environment can now leverage popular Swift@IBM technologies using IBM Cloud Tools for Swift (beta) on IBM Bluemix. In addition, Linux developers can take advantage of today's most popular language on the most powerful Linux platform for data-serving and systems of record, LinuxONE™.Start building end-to-end applications and quickly deploy them with Kitura on both OSX and Linux. Kitura is a modular, package-based web framework and HTTP server. Written in the Swift language, this open source framework lays the foundation for community collaboration, building off the latest technologies from the Swift.org developer community including Libdispatch, Foundation, and the Swift Package Manager.

1. Swift@IBM
Bringing Swift to Cloud to Simplify
End-to-End Development of Apps
Vidyasagar S Machupalli, IBM Cloud
http://vidyasagarmsc.com
@VidyasagarMSC

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Agenda
Why Swift?
Community enablement
✓ Swift Sandbox
✓ Swift Package Catalog
Consistent developer experience
✓ Kitura Web Framework
Cloud enablement
✓ IBM Cloud Deployment
✓ IBM Cloud Tools for Swift

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Why Swift?
✓ Beginner Friendliness
➢ Easy to Understand
✓ Scalability
➢ Easy to Maintain
➢ Fast
➢ Optimized Memory-Usage
✓ Community
➢ Fast-growing Meetup Community
➢ Over 240 Useful GitHub Projects to Ease
Development
✓ Future

4. Why Swift ? – Gaining Popularity
Source: StackOverflow
*As of September 2016

5. Community Enablement
http://swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net
IBM Swift Sandbox

6. http://swiftpkgs.ng.bluemix.net
IBM Swift Package Catalog
Community Enablement

7. Build end-to-end applications in Swift
• Open source web framework for
Swift on macOS and Linux
• Inspired by Express for Node.js
• Flexible routing
• Pluggable middlewares
• Easy to deploy
Free Ebook - https://developer.ibm.com/swift/
Consistent Developer Experience
Kitura.io | https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura
Kitura Web Framework

8. Request
Response
Client
Safari
Routing Service
Logic
Linux / Docker
Web Server

9. https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Blitter

11. BluePic
End to End Swift
• Sample photo sharing app
• Rich client interface written in Swift
• Swift Server built with Kitura, IBM Cloud, Watson,
and OpenWhisk
• Available at github.com/IBM-Swift/BluePic

12. Services
Object
Storage
Watson Image
Recognition
Cloudant
Core Cloud Services
Response
iOS App
ModelControllersViews
User Interaction
Request
Application Server
Client and Service
Integration
Routing
Service
Logic
End to End Swift
BluePic design pattern

13. Application Server
Client and Service
Integration
Core Cloud Services
Users
Photos
Image Insights = Tags
Push Notifications
Mountain,
Sunset, River
Meta Data
End to End Swift
BluePic design pattern

14. Clients
Application Server
Other Services
Mountain,
Sunset, River
Meta Data
Cloud
Application Tiers
End to End Swift

15. macOS
Develop and Debug Application Server Other Services
Mountain,
Sunset, River
Meta Data
Cloud
End to End Swift
BluePic Development Setup

16. Other Services
Cloud
Develop and Debug
macOS
Develop and
Debug
Mountain,
Sunset, River
Meta Data
End to End Swift
BluePic Development Setup

17. +
http://cloudtools.bluemix.net
IBM Cloud Tools for Swift
Cloud Enablement

18. +
Develop and Debug Develop and Debug Other Services
Mountain,
Sunset, River
Meta Data
CloudmacOS
IBM Cloud Tools for Swift
End-to-end Swift Development

19. +
Bluemix.netSwift.org
Cloud Enablement
IBM Cloud Deployment

20. Other
Services
Cloud
Develop and Debug
macOS
Develop and Debug
Mountain,
Sunset, River
Meta Data
IBM Cloud Tools for Swift (Mac App)
End-to-end Swift
Demo

21. Adding a backend
Apps need persistence – we can help you!
• Apache Cassandra
• https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kassandra
• Redis
• https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-redis
• CouchDB
• https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-CouchDB

22. Adding authentication via OAuth 2.0
• HTTP Basic Auth
• https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-CredentialsHTTP
• Facebook
• https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-CredentialsFacebook
• Google
• https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-CredentialsGoogle
• GitHub
• https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-CredentialsGitHub

23. © 2017 IBM Corporation
Vidyasagar S
Machupalli
Thank you very much.
IBM
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