<commit_before>---
layout: post
title: ! 'Issue #161'
author: btb
---

The [previous issue](/issue-160) a more extensive introduction, so for this one
I'll keep it short. WWDC is coming up really soon — I'm very much looking
forward to it and seeing/meeting people online. Come say hi if possible :-)

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### News and community

[<NAME>](https://twitter.com/TomerDoron) wrote [a blog post and announced](https://swift.org/blog/aws-lambda-runtime/)
Swift AWS Lambda Runtime, designed to help Swift developers build serverless
functions for the Amazon Web Services Lambda platform.

[<NAME>](https://twitter.com/fabianfett) wrote [a blog post](https://fabianfett.de/getting-started-with-swift-aws-lambda-runtime)
on getting started with Swift on AWS Lambda.

[<NAME>](https://twitter.com/daniel_dunbar) announced [llbuild2](https://forums.swift.org/t/llbuild2/36896),
an experimental, Swift native, fully async, NIO futures-based low level build
system. Started as the `cevobuild` experiment in `llbuild`, it aims to continue
that exploration.

[<NAME>](https://twitter.com/AirspeedSwift/status/1264664397504372736) played
around [with `Collection`](https://twitter.com/AirspeedSwift/status/1264664397504372736),
implementing an `EitherCollection` that is a whopping 774x faster than<commit_msg>Fix typo in issue #161 (#527)<commit_after>---
layout: post
title: ! 'Issue #161'
author: btb
---

The [previous issue](/issue-160) has a more extensive introduction, so for this one
I'll keep it short. WWDC is coming up really soon — I'm very much looking
forward to it and seeing/meeting people online. Come say hi if possible :-)

<!--excerpt-->

{% include sponsor.html %}

### News and community

[<NAME>](https://twitter.com/TomerDoron) wrote [a blog post and announced](https://swift.org/blog/aws-lambda-runtime/)
Swift AWS Lambda Runtime, designed to help Swift developers build serverless
functions for the Amazon Web Services Lambda platform.

[<NAME>](https://twitter.com/fabianfett) wrote [a blog post](https://fabianfett.de/getting-started-with-swift-aws-lambda-runtime)
on getting started with Swift on AWS Lambda.

[<NAME>](https://twitter.com/daniel_dunbar) announced [llbuild2](https://forums.swift.org/t/llbuild2/36896),
an experimental, Swift native, fully async, NIO futures-based low level build
system. Started as the `cevobuild` experiment in `llbuild`, it aims to continue
that exploration.

[<NAME>](https://twitter.com/AirspeedSwift/status/1264664397504372736) played
around [with `Collection`](https://twitter.com/AirspeedSwift/status/1264664397504372736),
implementing an `EitherCollection` that is a whopping 774x faster than
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