IBM Kitura is a web framework that allows iOS developers to take their existing Swift skills to the cloud. In this course, learn how to get started with server-side Swift—often considered to be the new frontier for the Swift language—using IBM Kitura. Instructor Mohammad Azam starts by showing how to set up a Kitura project from scratch. Next, he takes a look at how you can return JSON responses to users using this framework, including how to convert model classes into a JSON format. After that, he highlights different ways that Kitura can help you read user data, and demonstrates how to integrate Kitura with a PostgreSQL database. Finally, he explains how to integrate a Kitura web API with an iOS app.