SSWG Annual Update '19

The Swift Server Work Group (SSWG) set out 12 months ago to begin defining and prioritizing new efforts to address the needs of the Swift server community. Since then, we’ve been busy meeting regularly, working with the community, defining guidelines, writing Swift packages, voting on proposals, posting in the forums, and much more. We feel that we’ve made significant progress toward those goals we set out last year and we’d like to share a high-level update with you today.

→ swift.org/blog/sswg-update-2019/

The Swift Server Work Group (SSWG) has made significant progress in its first year, establishing an incubation process for defining high-quality Swift packages through community pitches, reviews, and acceptance, resulting in nine approved libraries like SwiftNIO for networking, SwiftLog for logging, and database clients for Postgres and Redis.

They've enhanced tooling with official Docker images, Swift Backtrace for crash reporting, and monthly Linux patch releases to improve performance and reliability. Looking to 2020, the SSWG plans to focus on expanding database drivers, distributed tracing, connection pooling, OpenAPI support, additional Linux distributions, deployment guides, and showcasing production adoption to grow the server-side Swift ecosystem.