A blockchain allows different entities share a database without having to entrust that database to a single entity. Catena provides an SQL database on top of a blockchain, providing all the benefits of blockchains (resiliency, distributed operation, openness) while providing a familiar interface to its users.
Having written about 80.000 lines of Swift code for Warp, I have learned a thing or two about the best way to deal with concurrency in Swift. You must not make assumptions about how callback blocks are called. Usually you want a callback function to do some work in a certain queue. Although you can design …
RethinkDB is the first open-source, scalable JSON database built from the ground up for the realtime web. Rethink.swift is a work-in-progress framework that allows interfacing with RethinkDB from the Swift programming language. Connecting and querying RethinkDB from Swift is straightforward and is frictionless because of all the syntactic sugar Swift provides …
In this post, I will share some of my favourite ‘customizations’ that make Swift an even more pleasant environment than it already is. Most of it comes straight from Warp, the big data analysis tool I’ve been developing, and is focused around concurrency and data processing. Dealing with the main thread …
