# April 29th, 2020

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/april-29th-2020/36444>\
**Category:** Workgroup Updates\
**Created:** [May 13, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/april-29th-2020/36444 "2020-05-13T15:48:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![tanner0101](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/swift/user_avatar/forums.swift.org/tanner0101/32/675_2.png) [@tanner0101](https://forums.swift.org/u/tanner0101)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/april-29th-2020/36444/1 "2020-05-13T15:48:47Z")

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Attendance:

- Tomer Doron
- Johannes Weiss
- Logan Wright
- Ben Cohen
- Tanner Nelson

OpenAPIKit

- Approved to sandbox
- @tomerd will update package index and lock thread.
- @tanner0101 will update [Feedback] post.

Debugging performance issues guide

- [https://github.com/swift-server/guides/pull/7](https://github.com/swift-server/guides/pull/7)
- @tanner0101 @tomerd @logan will give reviews.

Guides

- @tomerd will reach out to Amazon folks about submitting an EC2 deployment guide.
- @tanner0101 will submit a DigitalOcean guide.
- DigitalOcean and EC2 guides will be similar since they both involve compiling Swift on a fresh Ubuntu VM.

Unified API for databases

- [SwiftDB - Unified API for Database Independent Connectivity](https://forums.swift.org/t/swiftdb-unified-api-for-database-independent-connectivity/35440/2)
- Current focus is on database driver implementations
  - [GitHub - vapor/postgres-nio: 🐘 Non-blocking, event-driven Swift client for PostgreSQL.](https://github.com/vapor/nio-postgres)
  - [GitHub - Mordil/RediStack: Non-blocking, event-driven Swift client for Redis.](https://github.com/mordil/swift-redis-nio-client)
  - [SwiftNIO based MySQL client](https://forums.swift.org/t/swiftnio-based-mysql-client/31620)
  - [SwiftNIO integration for SQLite APIs](https://forums.swift.org/t/swiftnio-integration-for-sqlite-apis/31621)
  - [[Discussion] MongoDB Swift driver](https://forums.swift.org/t/discussion-mongodb-swift-driver/34472)

- Swift / SSWG is not ready to make an official API for this yet, we should continue to explore possible solutions
  - [GitHub - vapor/fluent-kit: Swift ORM (queries, models, and relations) for NoSQL and SQL databases](https://github.com/vapor/fluent-kit)
  - [GitHub - vapor/sql-kit: \*️⃣ Build SQL queries in Swift. Extensible, protocol-based design that supports DQL, DML, and DDL.](https://github.com/vapor/sql-kit)
  - Many more exist, including client-specific libraries

- Focus on building from Swift's strengths, not copying existing solutions

APNSwift

- New contributor added (@tanner0101)
- Looks good so far, but more time to demonstrate maturity would be ideal

MongoDB

- Feedback thread will be posted soon.

Heroku Buildpack

- @Logan_Wright working on proposal.
- This will be the first proposal to use new process
- Last week's meeting notes have more information about the new process.