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November 25th, 2020
Server
Workgroup Updates
tomerd
January 6, 2021, 9:17pm
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@graskind
@0xTim
@ktoso
@weissi
@PeterAdams-A
@kmahar
@Logan_Wright
@tomerd
@varland
Agenda
Round of introduction
[Action] Come up with checklist for new and departing members (remove/give access from private area, etc)
2021 Goals
Tim
Tools and integration
Github (Actions and beyond)
Depedendabot
Snyk
Extending the DB options
Cassandra
Kafka
Johannes
Good progress on getting off the ground libraries
Tooling
Documentation and
swift.org
Write-up about concurrency and how to adopt it in server side
Giving users of Swift-Server more voice on workgroup
Konrad
Actors and distributed ssytems
Metrics across the ecosystem
Docs
Kaitlin
Gather data from the community and publish a report on how people are using it, what they need
Docs and examples, getting started guides
Replacing / refactoring parts of C programs with Swift (Mongo, Cassandra, Amazon, etc): Guide on how to best interop between C and Swift, what is needed by the C APIs, what the C program should manage and what should be left to the Swift layer
Todd
Making it easier to adopt Swift, democratizing the process. Bring this closer tho the kind of experience you get with Arduino.
Focus on the users
Logan
Concurrency
Gwynne
Simplification of Vapor APIs: Concurrency, less closures
More focus on other platforms like Windows and WASM
Windows: Both for the development and deployment
WASM: functions on the edges
Peter
Quality: Make everything we made good
Help with knowledge “cliff”, guides only help with first few steps, nothing in the “middle”
Tom
Concurrency
Package collections
Package manager
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