Swift has gone from being a closed project at Apple to an open-source language the community can help shape and evolve on many development platforms. With the support of the wider community, the evolution of Swift is looking very positive as users get ideas from a wide range of technical perspectives. Presented by Karl Weinmeister at the Swift Summit, Nov 7th 2016

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Swift Summit 2016
Fireside Chat
Karl Weinmeister
Program Director, Swift@IBM Engineering
November 8th, 2016

2. Swift on the Server Means Flexibility
Architecture
Put the right logic in the right place
Skills
Solve more problems with
common concepts
Velocity
Staff teams from a deeper
pool of developers
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3. Swift@IBM solutions streamline the onramp to the cloud
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Kitura
Web framework leverages
libdispatch and Foundation
Swift Sandbox
Web tool to help with Swift
adoption and evolution
IBM Cloud Tools
For cloud deployment from
macOS
Package Catalog
To find the right SwiftPM
compliant packages
Swift Runtime
Quickly go from local code to
public URL

4. End-to-End Swift with Cognitive and 3rd Party Services
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Cloud ServicesiOS App App Mid-tier
/api/v1/restaurants
SpeechßàText
Conversation via Watson Services
Google
Places
Watson
Sentiment
Conversation Results
(Recommendations)
OccasionGenerator
Pull Reviews and
Gather Sentiment
with Watson