Expanding Swift from Apps to Services

The Swift programming language is a popular choice for applications, but many engineers are less familiar with Swift’s capabilities for writing services. This session will explore why Swift is a great fit for services development, from memory safety to interoperability with other languages. Finally, we’ll discuss some of the principles we use when writing services in Swift at Apple.

Speaker

Cory Benfield

Senior Software Engineer Doing Swift on Server @Apple

Cory is a serial open source contributor and maintainer with more than a decade of experience building, maintaining, and innovating open source networking frameworks and protocol libraries. Currently Cory is a Senior Software Engineer at Apple, putting his skills to use on high-performance networking frameworks such as SwiftNIO, Netty, and more.

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Date

Tuesday Apr 8 / 11:45AM BST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Windsor (5th Fl.)

Topics

services swift memory safety privacy

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