October 13th, 2021

Server Workgroup Updates
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Attendees

@adam-fowler , @kmahar , @ktoso , @Patrick , @tachyonics , @0xTim , @varland , @tomerd

Action Items

Carry over

  • GitHub Actions
    • Testing has been done with caching and has been seen to bring down build time considerably.
    • @0xTim Needs to finalise scripts and expose to group
  • Async Guide
    • @ktoso Merge feedback into document and merge PR.
    • @ktoso Post to forums with details.
  • Common swift installer
    • Issues on Linux managing multiple versions of Swift with RPMs. There is a related PR discussion here . Everyone to review
  • MultipartKit
    • Review ends on Monday, @kmahar will post notes once review is over

New

  • Swift 5.5 performance
    • @0xTim to investigate Vapor performance issue with TechEmpower plaintext test
  • Default to static linking on Linux
    • @tomerd to run idea by SPM team
    • @tomerd to post on forums to get community feedback

Discussion

  • Common swift installer
    • Tom spoke with Ted from swift team. Agreed this is a good idea
    • There is progress on RPM and Debian packages. See GitHub - apple/swift-installer-scripts
    • Issues on Linux managing multiple versions of Swift with RPMs. There is a related PR discussion here .
    • Agreed tool should be written in Swift
  • SegFault Issue detailed on forums: Fix is in 5.6 dev branch of Swift.
  • Scale by the bay conference
    • @0xTim and @ktoso are both doing talks about distributed systems and distributed tracing
  • Static linking on Linux
    • Should this be the default on Linux, general agreement this is a good idea
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