Swift Academy Podcast
The Swift Academy podcast explores iOS development, Swift engineering, and the Apple platform ecosystem in deep-dive conversations with expert engineers, open source contributors, and Apple alumni.
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E2 · S3Listen: 109 min
Performance Is More Than Just Speed with Artem Mirzabekian and Bogdan Poplauschi
with Artem Mirzabekian & Bogdan Poplauschi
Part two of the performance deep dive: migrating a codebase to Swift Concurrency, the anti-patterns that survive the migration, what abstraction really costs, …
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E1 · S3Listen: 80 min
Modern iOS Performance Myths with Artem Mirzabekian and Bogdan Poplauschi
with Artem Mirzabekian & Bogdan Poplauschi
Part one of a two-part deep dive on iOS performance: what 'performant' means in 2026, why an app can be fast and still feel slow, whether SwiftUI simplified …
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E12 · S2Listen: 55 min
Modern iOS Security: Attacks, Defenses & AI with Dave Poirier and Deya Elkhawaldeh
with Dave Poirier & Deya Elkhawaldeh
Dave Poirier and Deya Elkhawaldeh on why 'Apple handles security for us' is the most expensive assumption in iOS development, how attackers actually pick …
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Season 3 · current
Performance, from the myths to what sits underneath
A two-part deep dive with Artem Mirzabekian and Bogdan Poplauschi: SwiftUI cost, the frame budget, then Swift Concurrency migration, abstraction and application launch.
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Season 2 · previous
Concurrency, on-device AI and the Swift ecosystem
Matt Massicotte on Swift Concurrency, Mohammad Azam on Foundation Models, Mihaela Mihaljević on MCP tooling, Natalia Panferova on accessibility.
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Season 1 · archive
Mobile security, refactoring and architecture
Jon Reid on TDD, Chris Eidhof and Florian Kugler on SwiftUI animations, Tjeerd In ’t Veen on modularisation, Dave Poirier across the security thread.
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