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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development
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Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development

by Ralph Kuepper
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
10h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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SwiftNIO

What is SwiftNIO? It is the official library Apple offers for managing and dealing with network connections and data streams, including filesystems. SwiftNIO provides all of the tools, protocols, and features you would need to operate in a network.

Before SwiftNIO, Swift server applications had to rely mostly on external C libraries. While this is not a problem in principle, having a pure Swift network library allows for better debugging and cleaner code.

SwiftNIO is a big step forward to the server-side Swift world since it standardizes network communication and delivers the toolsin Swiftyou need to build performant and reliable network applications. Apple has invested a lot of time and energy into SwiftNIO for it to be the main ...

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