Swift in the Cloud

Your one-stop guide to creating and running Swift applications in the cloudSince its introduction in 2014, the Swift language has become one of the most rapidly adopted programming languages in history. In Swift in the Cloud, the team responsible for bringing Swift to the cloud environment walks you through every step needed to create code that runs in massively scalable cloud environments. You will learn both the concepts involved and examples of real code you can start using today.These experts introduce you to the Swift language and its features as well as the elements and structure of the Swift.org open technology project. From there, you will learn to create server applications that run on the pay-as-you-go cloud infrastructure, how to write and test Swift code snippets in your own cloud sandbox, and how to use the Cloud Foundry Buildpack for Swift to avoid the complexities of runtime configuration. You will be able to build high-performing web applications and REST APIs with a Swift-based web server framework and run Swift modules in an asynchronous, open source, serverless cloud environment. Swift enables you to build all components of a scalable, robust business software solution using the same programming language.Swift in the Cloud introduces you to:* IBM's Cloud Platform-as-a-Service environment* Using Docker containers to run Swift* Swift packages and the Package Manager* Using Swift and Kitura for web applications* Event-driven programming using OpenWhisk* Plenty of examples and code samples you can use now