Swift, Server-Side, Serverless

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Deploys server-side Swift to AWS Lambda using containers and SAM, showing a Vapor or Hummingbird app running unmodified by adding one Dockerfile line and an AWS Lambda web adapter (demo succeeds but adds latency). Uses SwiftPM archive (requires Docker and --disable-sandbox) to produce a Linux zip and a SwiftPM deploy plugin that generates SAM templates from a Swift DSL. Covers the new Swift runtime v2, local testing via sam local, a VS Code extension, and Lambda’s free tier of 1,000,000 requests plus 400,000 seconds of CPU.

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" chapters (8)

1. 0:00Introduction to serverless
2. 2:12AWS Lambda fundamentals
3. 5:05Deploying with AWS SAM
4. 8:04Running web apps on Lambda
5. 14:37Building native Swift functions
6. 20:48Packaging and deployment tools
7. 23:46Infrastructure as code in Swift
8. 28:21VS Code tooling and conclusion

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