David Okun joins us to discuss Kitura, the state of Swift on the server, and everything else I threw at him! David is the Developer Advocate at IBM and he has a passion for Kitura as well as the Swift community.

Resources

Kitura
Docker
Deploying Kitura with Docker & Kubernetes: Getting Started – Audrey Tam
Stencil
Vapor vs Kitura: Choosing a Server Side Swift Framework – Brian Schick

Reach Out and Get Involved

Here are a few people doing amazing work on Swift. David recommended reaching out to them if you want to get involved with Swift beyond mobile development.

Ayaka Nonaka – @ayanonagon
Harlan Haskins – @harlinhaskins

Things We Love

David Okun

• The Rust Programming Language
• EBow

Eman Harout

• Simple Modern Ascent Bottle
• iPhone XR / Airpods
• Update: Removed iPhone Edge case recommendation. Company was great and sent me a Metal Bumper as a replacement, which I suspect will be a much better product.

Contact

• @dokun24
• David’s Twitch Stream
• @emanharout