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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 1d

The Swift and OpenTelemetry updates keep rolling in! The latest release of Swift Async HTTP Client github.com/swift-server... now includes automatic tracing support. Including a core path for web requests from Vapor or Hummingbird really steps up the observability for these services! #swiftlang

Release Async HTTP Client 1.29.0 · swift-server/async-http-client

What's Changed SemVer Minor Introduce built-in swift-distributed-tracing support by @ktoso in #857 Other Changes Enable Swift 6.2 jobs in CI by @rnro in #859 Full Changelog: 1.28.0...1.29.0

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Swift Language @swift.org · 3d

New tooling for profiling performance-critical services with Swift -- introducing the Swift Profile Recorder. More here: www.swift.org/blog/swift-p...

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Tim Condon @0xtim.bsky.social · 6d

It's been an incredible year for the conference. We had attendees from 6(!) continents come together for an amazing 3 days of workshops, talks and meeting each other face to face. Thank you to all the volunteers and speakers, it's been truly special

ServerSide.swift @serversideswift.info · 6d

2025 - that's a wrap

#swiftlang
#serversideswift2025

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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 5d

Kind of exhausted and excited at the same time, winding down for the flight home from @serversideswift.info conference. A stellar #swiftlang community sharing & new voices adding into the mix this year.

@0xtim.bsky.social and Daniel Steinberg did such a wonderful job guiding the sessions!

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Konrad ‘ktoso’ Malawski @kto.so · 6d

Very sweet config library that'll change how we configure libraries across the ecosystem. No more hardcoded values; easy reloading and overriding etc. @czechboy0 #swiftlang

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Stijn Willems @doozmen.bsky.social · 6d

If a team that lived in C and Go can build production container infrastructure in Swift, the language is ready for serious server-side systems work. - Eric Ernst, Apple #swiftlang #serversideSwift2025

github.com/apple/contai...

GitHub - apple/container: A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.

A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. - GitHub - apple/container: A tool for creati...

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 6d

It took almost two years…! The Fugue paper that @mweidner.bsky.social and I wrote about interleaving in collaborative text editing algorithms was finally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

paywalled: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
free: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583

The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing

Most existing algorithms for replicated lists, which are widely used in collaborative text editors, suffer from a problem: when two users concurrently insert text at the same position in the document,...

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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 7d

The expanding ecosystem for Swift Server #swiftlang #serversides.swift

a photo from the keynote presentation at ServerSide.Swift conference in 2025, listing a number of projects with recently updated projects highlighted.

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Jonathan Grynspan @grynspan.me · 13d

This team is central to the Swift OSS experience. And it's in Canada!

Tracy Miranda @tracymiranda.bsky.social · 13d

Great opportunity for someone keen on software quality to join the team at Apple in Ottawa working on fun devtools!

jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

Tools and Automation Engineer - Jobs - Careers at Apple

Apply for a Tools and Automation Engineer job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

jobs.apple.com

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Karen Chu @karenchu.online · 14d

Exciting stuff coming out of the Swift ecosystem! 👇 Catch @czechboy0.dev at @serversideswift.info next Friday @ 16:15 if you want to learn more! www.serversideswift.info/schedule/

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ServerSide.swift @serversideswift.info · 15d

Observability is super important for production systems - Moritz Lang and Si Beaumont are going to give us the low down on how to do it in Swift!

Speaker Profiles
www.serversideswift.info/speakers/mor...
www.serversideswift.info/speakers/si-...

Tickets - www.serversideswift.info/tickets/

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Honza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 14d

Introducing Swift Configuration 🎉

You'll also hear more about it at @serversideswift.info next week! 🏎️

forums.swift.org/t/introducin...

Introducing Swift Configuration

Hi Swift Community! Today, we’re pleased to announce the initial release of Swift Configuration: a new library that provides a unified approach to reading configuration in your Swift applications. C...

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Seb in the cloud ☁️ @sebsto.bsky.social · 15d

Ever wonder how to write safe and fast code to run on your server ?
Ever considered the open source Swift programming language ?

Maybe it's time

The Growth of the Swift Server Ecosystem

Nearly ten years ago, Swift was open sourced and an official runtime for Linux was released. I’ve been involved with Swift on the server since almost the very beginning, originally picking it up as a way to use a language I really enjoyed for backend development. In that time Swift has come a long way, with stability across platforms, a burgeoning ecosystem and many success stories. It’s matured into a great option for highly-scalable server applications, websites, and lambdas. In this post, I’ll cover how Swift:

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Khan Winter @khanwinter.com · 18d

Did just realize there is actually a BTree structure in the swift-collections package but it’s not released yet 😔

The SortedSet and SortedDictionary will be BTree-backed collections

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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 19d

Last lear was the first in-person conference in ages for me - Server Side Swift @serversideswift.info, I had a blast and it was amazing to be part of the community in action. So i’m super stoked to be going back, attending again this year, and looking forward to the amazing line up of speakers!

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ServerSide.swift @serversideswift.info · 20d

Did you know Apple are running a workshop at this year's conference? The Swift Server Fundamentals takes you through everything you need to get building and deploying a Swift application for the server.

Tickets - www.serversideswift.info/tickets/

Swift Server Fundamentals Workshop announcement card run by Apple

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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · 19d

Where can I find the article? I'd love to read it. /cc @philsturgeon.com

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tiborbodecs.bsky.social @tiborbodecs.bsky.social · Sep 3

📁 Practical Guide to Working with the SwiftNIO File System

🎓 Learn SwiftNIO's async file system API for non-blocking operations, including file and directory handling, reading, writing, and advanced use cases.

swiftonserver.com/nio-file-sys...

Practical Guide to Working with the SwiftNIO File System - Swift on server

Learn SwiftNIO's async file system API for non-blocking operations, including file and directory handling, reading, writing, and advanced use cases.

swiftonserver.com

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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · Sep 1

if you’re interested in #swiftlang and cross platform usage, the latest Swift Package Index has a great interview guest, Marc Prud'hommeaux, talking about Skip and android swift integration: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

61: People have been working on it for ten years

Podcast Episode · Swift Package Indexing · 08/28/2025 · 44m

podcasts.apple.com

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ServerSide.swift @serversideswift.info · Sep 1

Our next speaker is George Barnett who will be showing us how to get started with gRPC Swift!

Speaker Profile - www.serversideswift.info/speakers/geo...
Get your tickets here - www.serversideswift.info/tickets/

Speaker Announcement - George Barnett - Software Engineer at Apple - Getting started with gRPC Swift

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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · Aug 31

Lots of short session D&D downstairs in Summit - forgotten realms player preview bits that have been really fun (We've done two so far). And the showcase/video game booths are always amusing in the other building - Larian has a nice photo-op setup with cosplays there for Baldur's Gate.

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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · Aug 30

Had a wonderful day at PAX West, and i hit the highlight this year: attended a panel by the actors from Clair Obscur (really good), where they were upstaged by an adorable black pup with a red scarf and sun glasses, sitting with her friend in the sea of fans wearing red berets and stripped shirts.

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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · Aug 20

🎩 to @ccgus.bsky.social for the link: Zed's going serious into the CRDT game with DeltaDB. zed.dev/blog/sequoia...

It'll be super interesting to see where this implementation goes, especially against the others out there in open source - Automerge, Yjs, DiamondTypes, etc.

Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding - Zed Blog

From the Zed Blog: This investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE.

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Paul Samuels @paulio87.bsky.social · Aug 19

I wrote a post on self hosting a Vapor app on a Raspberry Pi

paul-samuels.com/blog/2025/08...

#swift #vapor

Self-hosting a Vapor app on a Raspberry Pi · paul-samuels.com

paul-samuels.com

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Joseph Heck @heckj.bsky.social · Aug 4

Very excited to see the first cut of github.com/valkey-io/va..., which supports really lovely structured concurrency integration for accessing the client, pipelining commands, mixing that with transactions, and more! #swiftlang #valkey

GitHub - valkey-io/valkey-swift: Valkey client written in Swift

Valkey client written in Swift. Contribute to valkey-io/valkey-swift development by creating an account on GitHub.

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