iPS 226: Give Cloudkit a Chance
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English - January 11, 2018 22:20 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBHow To Education Business Careers programming javascript web framework development front end developer programmer internet node Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Eric Sadun
Gui Rambo
Jaim Zuber
In today's episode, the iPheaks panel discusses Cloudkit, and many technical details about the cloud-based service. In short, Cloudkit is a cloud syncing solution and works similar to a database. Gui mentions the reluctant users of such type of service, some important discussion with the security and privacy. This is a great episode on understanding the framework of Cloudkit and the technical structure of this cloud service, how data is managing when documents are updated, Change Tokens, costs, and much more.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
Gui describes CloudKit
Why does it mean to use the Cloud
Storage
Storage facility - in Carolinas.
Data from the apps to the Cloud
Schema-less
Issues with login and see other peoples data
Creating a data object
Framework - Cloud-kit
Thinking of the cloud as an extra disc drive.
Error oriented programming
Real world use, and conflicts with document revisions
Nightmares syncing issues
Change tokens
Server Record Change
Options for Local and Server version
Text merging
Register subscriptions
Costs and development
Cloudkit is essentially free and has 3 different database
Private
Web clients or android
Local caching mechanism
Can I use CloudKit with a web or Android app?
and much more!
LINKS:
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/
CloudKit Rest API
https://medium.com/@guilhermerambo/synchronizing-data-with-cloudkit-94c6246a3fda
Picks:
Gui
https://medium.com/@guilhermerambo/synchronizing-data-with-cloudkit-94c6246a3fda
Eric
Jaim
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