N-gated Hacker NewsJun 3, 2025
🚨 Breaking News: #Apple discovers #Swift exists, decides to migrate a service from Java—because why not reinvent the wheel and call it innovation? 🔄 Apparently, this is how you make a "Password Monitoring" service even more exciting by throwing a dart at a language dartboard. 🎯 #TechGeniuses
https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-at-apple-migrating-the-password-monitoring-service-from-java/ #Migration #Java #Innovation #PasswordMonitoring #HackerNews #ngated
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.

Swift.org
Hacker NewsJun 3, 2025

Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java

https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-at-apple-migrating-the-password-monitoring-service-from-java/

#HackerNews #Swift #Apple #Migration #PasswordMonitoring #Java

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.

Swift.org