#1 Super Spectacular Server Side Swift! | #2 Discovering Native Swift Patterns

• Super Spectacular Server Side Swift!, with Edward Jiang (https://twitter.com/EdwardStarcraft)

• Discovering Native Swift Patterns, with Nick O'Neill (https://twitter.com/nickoneill)

• a lightning talk from Raheel Ahmad (https://twitter.com/raheel)

Lighting Talk: Using Monads and other Functional Paradigms in Practice, with Raheel Ahmad (https://twitter.com/raheel)

Talk #1: Super Spectacular Server Side Swift!

Now that Swift is open-source and cross-platform, several teams are racing to make Swift a viable language for web development. The major frameworks: Perfect, Vapor, and IBM's Kitura have over 13,000 stars on GitHub, and are growing quickly! Join us as we talk about the different frameworks, their pros and cons, and an introduction for how to get started with developing in server side Swift. (Several of the frameworks are even solely for Swift 3!) Join Edward for a live coding demo and even deploy a Swift application to the cloud!

About Edward (https://twitter.com/EdwardStarcraft):

Edward is a Developer Evangelist at Stormpath, and helps others secure their apps by building better user authentication. Previously, he was the second employee at PadMapper, and rebuilt their iOS app in Swift before they were acquired by Zumper for just under $10M. Edward was also the founder of StudentRND CodeDay, a nationwide hackathon to teach students to code. CodeDay reaches over 2,000 students nationwide in over 20 cities each quarter.

Talk #2: Discovering Native Swift Patterns, with Nick O'Neill

Patterns are your go-to code – the things you know exactly how to do in Objective-C and other languages because you've framed code like this many time before. But what happens when a new language is released with its own unique combinations of language syntax and features? We have to discover the patterns that feel at home in this new language; when to stick with what we know and when to branch out and do something new and different. We've had almost two full years with Swift now and we're still developing better ways to accomplish common tasks with our new language toolbox. This talk will cover some common patterns you might see in Objective-C and other languages and developing equivalent patterns using clear, concise code through the lens of native Swift.

About Nick (https://twitter.com/nickoneill):

Nick O'Neill is an independent iOS developer in San Francisco. He writes about creating clear, concise Swift patterns at That Thing in Swift (http://thatthinginswift.com).

Schedule:

6:30 - 7pm: Refreshments and food. Food will include options for omnivores, vegans, and gluten-free folks. We will not be serving alcohol at this meetup, but we'll have plenty of soda options.

7pm: Presentations + Q&A. We'll have a very short break between presentations.

We welcome you to stay and chat afterwards.

Recording: All our talks are recorded, so if you can't make it to the meetup you can still watch the talks about two weeks afterwards here (https://realm.io/news).

Location:

The Realm office is on Townsend St. between 2nd and 3rd (https://goo.gl/maps/wzP8KkLNCmm).

Look for the door-person standing outside the building. He or she will guide you up.

Getting there:

• 5-minute walk to the King St. Caltrain station. 20-minute walk from the Powell St. BART Station.

• The building entrance is next to the parking garage.

• Bike Parking: You're welcome to bring your bike inside, but you'll need to carry it to the 2nd floor.

• Please note that the building doesn't have an elevator so the venue isn't handicap accessible unfortunately.

Thanks to:

Realm for hosting and providing food + drinks.

Call for speakers!

We're looking for speakers! Know anyone? :) We hope so! Please fill out this short talk proposal form (https://docs.google.com/a/realm.io/forms/d/1BsApmVGMZOz3R46nkE4BNAgle_dpzHjA8XNU-4WbmJM/viewform).

We have openings for lightning talks (up-to 10 mins) as well as longer talks (20-30 mins) talks.

Questions? Email Chris at ck@realm.io