Kaitlin Mahar, lead engineer at MongoDB and member of the Swift Server Work Group, joins John to discuss the current state of server-side Swift, designing APIs for server-side libraries, and Swift’s upcoming suite of structured concurrency features.

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Links

• Kaitlin on Twitter
• John on Twitter
• MongoDB’s Swift driver
• MongoDB Atlas
• The MongoDB + Vapor integration library
• MongoDB’s specifications repo
• Swift Server Work Group
• Cassandra
• The Server category on the Swift forums
• SwiftNIO
• Swift Package Index
• The Swift Server Work Group’s incubation process
• Async/await
• Futures and Promises
• Structured concurrency in Swift
• Combine
• The Builder pattern
• The Factory pattern
• Rust
• Codable
• BSON
• Publish’s Markdown metadata decoder
• Amazon’s Smoke framework
• Property wrappers
• Result/function builders
• Intro and outro music by Dariusz Dziuk