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When Swift was announced back in 2014 I can remember thinking that I needed to make a pivot in my development approach and take all of my Objective-C knowledge and apply it towards developing in the Swift programming language going forward.  At first, I thought Swift would be a one-for-one replacement of Objective-C and there would not be much of a difference in the development process other than the syntax.

Since the announcement of CoreML at WWDC this year I have been very excited to get in and start researching all the capabilities of Apple's new machine learning framework. One of the ideas I had to test the capabilities of CoreML was to build a recommendation engine to provide users of an application with musical recommendations based upon a library of known selections.

Throughout my career as a technical lead I have been put in charge of many different projects.  Everything from mobile, to web, to server side development, and certainly a combination of all the above at the same time.  Over the years, as I have grown as a technical leader and engineer, so have the size of the projects that I lead.

I see a lot of discussion on the internet about the usage of weak, and unowned objects in Swift.