Podcast

Swift Academy Podcast · Series A mock-interview series with Artem Mirzabekian, Lead iOS Engineer. Real mobile system design problems, solved out loud the way a senior interview actually runs, with the roles swapping between episodes. Two episodes published. 🎧 Swift Academy Podcast · Series · 2 episodes · Requirements • APIs • Domain • Architecture “Most system design conversations stop at the box diagram. The interesting part starts after: what happens when the cursor is stale, the receipt URL has expired, and the user is on a train with no signal.” ...

Swift Academy Podcast, Episode 2, Season 3 Performance Is More Than Just Speed Part two with Artem Mirzabekian and Bogdan Poplauschi, going underneath the abstractions: Swift Concurrency migration, the cost of the tools we use daily, and why application launch is an architecture problem. August 23, 2026 🎧 Swift Academy Podcast · Episode 2, Season 3 • Part 2 of 2 · Concurrency • Abstraction • App Launch Watch the Episode The Hidden Cost of the Tools We Use Daily Part one challenged the myths. This one goes underneath them, into Swift Concurrency, abstractions, architecture, application launch, frameworks and dependencies. ...

Swift Academy Podcast, Episode 1, Season 3 Modern iOS Performance Myths Season 3 opens with a two-part conversation on performance, with Artem Mirzabekian and Bogdan Poplauschi. Part one is about the dogmas: what a fast app actually is, and why so many of them still feel slow. July 5, 2026 🎧 Swift Academy Podcast · Episode 1, Season 3 • Part 1 of 2 · Performance • SwiftUI • Concurrency Watch the Episode Fast Is Not the Same as Feeling Fast An application can be technically fast and still feel slow. That gap, between what a benchmark measures and what a user perceives, is where this episode spends most of its time. ...

Swift Academy Podcast, Episode 12, Season 2 Modern iOS Security: Attacks, Defenses & AI Dave Poirier and Deya Elkhawaldeh on iOS security as an engineering culture problem rather than a tooling one, and on what AI has already changed for the people attacking your app. May 31, 2026 🎧 Swift Academy Podcast · Episode 12, Season 2 · Mobile Security • Attacker Mindset • AI Watch the Episode Why This One Matters “Apple handles security for us” is, according to both guests, the single most expensive misconception in iOS development. The platform gives you good defaults. It does not give you a threat model. ...

Swift Academy Podcast, Episode 11, Season 2 MLX Swift & On-Device AI Adrien Grondin, iOS developer at LM Studio and creator of Locally AI, on why Apple Silicon changes the economics of running language models locally, and where that stops being true. May 17, 2026 🎧 Swift Academy Podcast · Episode 11, Season 2 · MLX Swift • Local LLMs • Apple Silicon Watch the Episode Why This One Matters Most teams shipping AI features today send everything to a cloud API. That works until you look at the bill, the latency, or the privacy review. Meanwhile Apple has been quietly building the other path: a framework designed from the start for unified memory on Apple Silicon. ...

Swift Academy Podcast, Episode 10, Season 2 Beyond the Prompt: Foundation Models as an Architectural Layer in iOS Mohammad Azam on why Apple’s on-device LLM is less an AI feature and more a redefinition of where intelligence lives in your app, @Generable, @Guide, instructions, tools, and adapter-based fine-tuning, viewed through the lens of iOS layered architecture. May 3, 2026 🎧 Swift Academy Podcast · Episode 10, Season 2 · Foundation Models • On-Device LLM • iOS Architecture “Foundation Models is not a chat surface. It is a typed, on-device, structured capability you wire into your architecture, the way you wire in URLSession or SwiftData. Treat it like a chatbot and you will build bad apps. Treat it like a layer and you will build defensible ones.” ...

Swift Academy Podcast, Episode 9, Season 2 Cupertino MCP: Local AI Tooling for Swift Developers How the Cupertino MCP server gives AI agents offline access to 302,000+ pages across 307 frameworks, a technical deep-dive into Model Context Protocol, local-first Swift AI development tooling, and the architecture behind a new generation of AI iOS development tools with Mihaela Mihaljević, Senior iOS Architect. April 19, 2026 🎧 Swift Academy Podcast · Episode 9, Season 2 · Model Context Protocol • Swift AI • Local Tooling “Giving an AI agent access to your full Apple documentation stack, offline, locally, without rate limits, is not a convenience. It changes the quality of what the agent can reason about. That’s the real unlock of local-first AI tooling.” ...