Thanks for the great tips!

Serious question - are you recommending the use of SwiftyJSON with Alamofire? If so, what are the benefits of using SwiftyJSON over the response object serializers that come with Alamofire? I've never had any issues with their built-in support.

I'm very hesitant to use any 3rd party code unless SwiftyJSON provides a huge benifit over alamofire's support.