Emanuele Colombo

Swift at Apple: migrating the Password Monitoring service from Java Swift is heavily used in production for building cloud services at Apple, with incredible results. Last year, the Password Monitoring service was rewritten in Swift, handling multiple billions of requests per day from devices all over the world. In comparison with the previous Java service, the updated backend delivers a 40% increase in performance, along with improved scalability, security, and availability.

New post on the Swift blog: we re-wrote the Password Monitoring service for Apple Passwords in Swift and saw huge improvements in memory use and throughput. Some of the details here still blow my mind; it's a fun read. https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-at-apple-migrating-the-password-monitoring-servi

Finally, I have to give a shoutout to @Github Copilot – it saved me a lot of time on this! 🤖

Node-based UI, supports text-to-image & multiple image-to-image (perfect for consistent characters). It also does inpainting (but with gpt-image-1 results may vary 😜). All browser-based, no server. Files stay on your device. You'll need your own OpenAI key.

Screenshot of the tool

So, a few weeks back I needed to make some AI images and wanted to try out OpenAI's new model. Didn't have a ChatGPT sub, so I coded a little tool to mess around with its API. Just threw it up on GitHub if anyone wants to play. More info here:
www.msec.it/blog/playing...

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