Weekly Digest
Apr 5 - Apr 11, 2021
4 articles that week
Lessons in SwiftUI
Kari Grooms from Vrbo's iOS team discovered SwiftUI wasn't just a learning curve—it was a complete rethink of how to build mobile UIs. Her team's migration revealed surprising gotchas that most tutorials won't tell you.
Optimizing OpenTelemetry's Span Processor for High Throughput and Low Latency
DoorDash's OpenTelemetry adoption hit a wall: 72% CPU utilization versus 56% without tracing. That's a costly tax for observability.
Migrating Your App to Swift Packages
Dmitri Fuerle from OkCupid reveals how their team cut clean build times to under a minute by modularizing their iOS codebase. The secret? Swift Package Manager in a monorepo setup.
Swift Collections Library
Karoy Lorentey from Apple's Swift team just dropped three game-changing data structures that could make your Swift code faster and more reliable. Array and Dictionary aren't enough anymore.