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Serverless Swift

Apache OpenWhisk for iOS developers

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  • Gain a sought for cloud native skill in Serverless and use open source modern cloud native programming
  • Augment your iOS development skills by adding Serverless cloud computing
  • Benefit by writing the mobile backend portion of your applications in Swift—the same language as native mobile apps

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Introducing Serverless

    • Marek Sadowski, Lennart Frantzell
    Pages 1-18
  3. Actors in the Serverless Space

    • Marek Sadowski, Lennart Frantzell
    Pages 19-36
  4. Apache OpenWhisk – Open Source Project

    • Marek Sadowski, Lennart Frantzell
    Pages 37-57
  5. Hello World from Apache OpenWhisk in Swift

    • Marek Sadowski, Lennart Frantzell
    Pages 59-82
  6. Apache OpenWhisk Deep Dive

    • Marek Sadowski, Lennart Frantzell
    Pages 83-119
  7. The Complete iOS App Using Serverless Swift

    • Marek Sadowski, Lennart Frantzell
    Pages 121-146
  8. Use Cases

    • Marek Sadowski, Lennart Frantzell
    Pages 147-165
  9. Cloud Native Development Best Practices

    • Marek Sadowski, Lennart Frantzell
    Pages 167-181
  10. Conclusions

    • Marek Sadowski, Lennart Frantzell
    Pages 183-191
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 193-206

About this book

Decrease development time to market with Serverless Swift—the event-based modern architecture for full stack developers. This book reviews how to use the Apache OpenWhisk framework to enrich your standalone applications with cloud-based functionalities from data sources up to Artificial Intelligence. 

You'll leverage serverless in your mobile apps with use case scenarios and gain the skills that will allow you to create robust, performant, secure yet economically viable systems in a cloud native environment. Finally, you'll see how to participate in the creation and further development of this open source project with Apache Foundation, which is supported by IBM, Google, and others

Serverless has become a new style of coding, and it can be used to offload your mobile apps without incurring unnecessary costs. Get a solid, hands-on introduction into serverless, function-as-a-service, and cloud function technologies and learn why startups and enterprises are so excitedabout using them. 

What You'll Learn

  • Employ Apache OpenWhisk in your apps
  • Expand your iOS skills with Cloud Native Serverless programming
  • Use a Docker container as a Polyglot action

Who This Book Is For

Developers, development leaders in the enterprise, and startup CTOs who want to learn a leading technology for the cloud in order to enrich applications with SaaS, Social Networks, and cloud based AI and APIs. 



Authors and Affiliations

  • Walnut Creek, USA

    Marek Sadowski

  • Sunnyvale, USA

    Lennart Frantzell

About the authors

Lennart Frantzell is a Developer Advocate with IBM in San Francisco, focusing on Blockchain and AI. Born in Sweden, Lennart moved to Silicon Valley in the late 1980s to work with Expert Systems. He worked on a team that specialized in taking prototypes from IBM Research and productizing them, making them ready for distribution to all over the world. When the "AI Winter" put the breaks to development of Expert Systems, Lennart moved to Object Oriented programming and from there to the IBM Internet Division, part of the burgeoning Internet and Web movement in the late 1990s.

Marek Sadowski is a full stack developer advocate, a robotics startup founder and an entrepreneur. Born in Poland, he has about 20 years experience in consulting large enterprises in America, Europe, Japan, the Middle East, and Africa. As a graduate from the International Space University, Marek pioneered research on VR goggles for the virtual reality system to control robots on Mars in NASA Ames in 1999. He also founded a startup to deliver robotics solutions and services for industries. In 2014, Marek moved to Silicon Valley to promote Edge, IoT, robotics, and mobile solutions driven with AI, APIs, Cloud Native.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Serverless Swift

  • Book Subtitle: Apache OpenWhisk for iOS developers

  • Authors: Marek Sadowski, Lennart Frantzell

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5836-1

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Marek Sadowski and Lennart Frantzell 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-5835-4Published: 25 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-5836-1Published: 24 August 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 206

  • Number of Illustrations: 73 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Apple and iOS

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 29.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access