Swift on the Server
Production Swift for backends, services, and tooling.
Swift on the server has matured rapidly thanks to projects like SwiftNIO, Vapor, and Hummingbird. The Swift Everywhere server workstream collects deployment recipes, container images, and benchmarks aimed at real-world production use.
Focus areas
- Minimal, reproducible container images for Swift services
- Performance comparisons across Linux distributions and architectures
- Cross-compilation from macOS hosts to Linux targets
From swift.org
Swift on the server has official backing through the Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG). Start with these:
- Swift on Server documentation — the umbrella for guides on building, packaging, deploying, and operating Swift services in production.
- Build a web service with Vapor — the canonical “hello world” for a Swift backend, walking through Vapor on macOS and Linux.
- Server-side packaging guide and the deployment guide — recommended patterns for shipping Swift services to production.
- Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) — charter, meeting minutes, and the incubation process for community-supported server libraries.
- Build cloud services with Swift — swift.org’s high-level overview of the server use case.