92: “All of our wildest Swift dreams”, with special guest Kaitlin Mahar
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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)