The “Rings of Power” series distributed in part thanks to Swift

If you’re a die-hard fan of Tolkien’s work, you’ve probably spent your weekend watching The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. But did you know that Prime Video uses Swift on its servers to distribute the video in the best possible conditions?

Indeed, the orchestration of the various operations for making video streams available is managed by a set of micro web services designed from Smoke Frameworkan open source solution designed in Swift.

If you still doubted Swift’s capabilities on production servers, Amazon offers part of the answer. Moreover, Apple explains since this year how to use Xcode for developing server solutions. And that’s just the beginning.

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