Talk Details
Title
Structured Concurrency for Server Developers
Description
Swift Concurrency revolutionized concurrent and parallel
programming in Swift. Concurrency added a number of important features, such as
actors and the async/await syntax, that make it easier than ever to write correct
concurrent code in Swift. These features have been widely adopted in the server
ecosystem, and they’re empowering server developers to write better services than
ever before.
Alongside these features, Swift Concurrency introduced the new programming style of
structured concurrency. Adopting structured concurrency brings a wide range of
benefits: it makes object lifetimes simpler, makes it easier to clean up, ensures
errors aren’t lost, and makes it easier to reason about your concurrent code.
In this talk, we will introduce the concepts at the heart of structured concurrency
and explains the value your services get from adopting it. We will then lay out a
recommended structure for adopting structured concurrency on the server, including
how to write NIO-based services with this new pattern.
About the Speaker
Position
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Bio
Cory is a serial open source contributor and maintainer with
almost a decade of experience building, maintaining, and innovating open source
networking frameworks and protocol libraries. He's spent time as a core contributor
or lead maintainer on a number of Python HTTP libraries and networking frameworks,
including Requests, Hyper, and Twisted. Currently Cory is a Senior Software Engineer
at Apple, putting his skills to use on high-performance networking frameworks such
as SwiftNIO, Netty, and more.
