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#57 Technology Trade Offs: Python & Kotlin (With Matt Anger)

Happy Path Programming

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R2DBC and Coroutines: A Comparison

R2DBC is basically like the next generation kind of reactive database access layer for the Java world. It's got a lot of big heavy players behind it and the point is to kind of replace JDBC and JDBI which are they have presented like blocking views with the new kind of reactive programming both in Java but then also because you know with Kotlin you can easily turn reactive and do coroutine friendly databases. We were a little bit hesitant at first right trying to benchmark I try to get a few services on board um just to make sure that we could battle test it before we kind of went all in on it.

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