BYOB: Build Your Own (Swift) Backend. Server-Side Swift beyond CloudKit
summary
Compares actual frameworks and deployments: Vapor, Kitura, Perfect are implemented, tested and contrasted on model ergonomics, ORM behavior, native connectors and deployment paths (Vapor Cloud, IBM, Docker, AWS Lambda). Describes building a GraphQL server with Graffiti and integrating Apollo client codegen and caching, shares model/package reuse via SPM and SQLite examples, and reports Swift services achieving lower memory and faster runtimes than interpreted NodeJS and typical C# stacks. Notes tradeoffs where complex relational sharing proved impractical.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:15The Plan
- 0:33The Execution
- 9:21Code Sharing
- 13:15Server Side Swift - Micro Service
- 16:40Tell me what you want
- 21:40Deployment Options
- 22:22Swift or Node?
- 25:09Use Cases
- 26:26A Step Further
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