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In this episode, Leo talks with Sven A. Schmidt, co-creator of the Swift Package Index. We talk about the challenges of supporting thousands of Swift Packages, dealing with metrics and site ops with Vapor, running CI for the site and the plethora of Swift packages as well as Apple Silicon support.
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- Arena
- Hummingbird
- Revisor (Xcode Extension)
- Swift Package Index
- Swift by Sundell #75 - The Swift package ecosystem
- Swift Packages - Dependency Management of the Future - Leo Dion
- The Swift Package Index Metadata File
- Shields.io - badges for your README
- MistKit - CloudKit support outside of CloudKit framework (i.e. Linux)
- Swift Metrics
- SwiftPrometheus
- Snapshot Testing by PointFree
- Ink by John Sundell
- Plot by John Sundell
- OrchardNest.com
- PointFree Ep 16: Dependency Injection Made Easy
- How To Control The World by Stephen Celis (from PointFree)
- Grafana
- Rester for Smoke Testing
- Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 (persisted volume)
- Extend SwiftPM `PackageDescription` to introduce metadata
- Swift Package Continuous Integration Guide by Leo
- Virtualization Framework
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