Serverless Swift

Serverless Swift Description

Chapter 1: Introducing Serverless

Chapter Goal: Event-based modern architecture allowing developers to decrease time to market. This chapter answers the questions what it is, when to use it, and how.

-       introduce event based programming

-       an architecture for Serverless

-       cloud based programming model

-       open source and Serverless

-       the economics of Serverless

-       the reliability of Serverless

-       resources required to run Serverless

-       the operation weight is on the Cloud provider side

-       when to use Serverless

-       where are the traditional servers strong

Chapter 2: Actors in the Serverless space

Chapter Goal: Introducing the players

-       Amazon Lambda, 

-       Microsoft Functions

-       Google Functions

-       IBM Functions 

-       Apache OpenWhisk

Chapter 3: Apache OpenWhisk - OpenSource project

Chapter Goal: As Java by Sun Microsystems ( now Oracle), Swift has been released to Open Source community by Apple - and it has been adopted to be used in the Serverless Swift in Apache OpenWhisk project

-       overview of Apache OpenWhisk open source project

-       Who is supporting Apache OpenWhisk project : IBM, Google, anyone else

-       supported languages: (JS, Java, Python, Swift, Docker)

-       adoption of Swift as an open source language

-       extending the iOS programming with Serverless in the cloud

-       server side Swift vs Serverless Swift

-       when to use Serverless - Apache OpenWhisk - and when not to use it - patterns and antipatterns

Chapter 4: Hello World from Apache OpenWhisk in Swift

Chapter Goal: Introduction to the technology with Hello World example

-       running your first Serverless Swift application

Chapter 5: Apache OpenWhisk Deep Dive

Chapter Goal: An introduction to main development concepts of Apache OpenWhisk

-       functions

-       rules

-       triggers

-       event providers

-       iOS SDK

-       Entities, Namespaces, Permissions

-       Sequences

Chapter 6 : Create an iOS app Using Serverless Swift 

Chapter Goal: Introduction of the typical development strategies in using Serverless Swift in iOS applications

-       using an open source code example to build a modern application

Chapter 7: Use Cases 

Chapter Goal: This chapter introduces typical use cases for Serverless Swift applications

-       Serverless Backends

-       Mobile Backends

-       Data Processing

-       Cognitive Data Processing

-       IoT ready

-       Event Stream Processing

-       Conversational Scenarios

-       Scheduled Tasks

Chapter 8: Cloud Native Development Best Practices

Chapter Goal: When deploying an enterprise grade application in the Cloud these best practises are necessary to follow.

-       Security aspects

-       API Gateway fencing

-       API Connect for billing, and further authorization  

-       Cold - Warm start of Serverless Swift functions

-       Docker and Server Side Swift for the business transaction support

-       Cloud Providers for Apache OpenWhisk

Chapter 9 : Conclusions

Chapter Goal: Summary of findings and next steps and resources.

-       when to use Serverless - Apache OpenWhisk - and when not to use it - patterns and antipatterns

-       resources for help

-      meetups with authors.