George Barnett

George Barnett


Talk Details

Title

Getting started with gRPC Swift

Description

Looking to build fast, type-safe APIs in Swift? gRPC offers a high-performance alternative to REST using Protocol Buffers and HTTP/2. This session provides a brief introduction to gRPC Swift, guiding you through the concepts of gRPC, defining services in .proto files, generating Swift code, and implementing both clients and servers for various RPC types. Learn how gRPC Swift streamlines development and boosts performance for your applications.

About the Speaker

Position

Software Engineer at Apple

Bio

George is a software engineer at Apple working predominantly on open-source Swift libraries. He's the primary maintainer of gRPC Swift and a member of the SwiftNIO core team. George is interested in building and maintaining easy-to-use libraries and has done so across a smorgasbord of domains from networking and database drivers, to observability and beyond.