Talking Kotlin

How do you go about adopting Kotlin for a financial application when you're asked questions about it's validity, why it won't become another {xyz} language or be abandoned? How do you get people that don't know Java to use Kotlin? These and more things are discussed with Benjamin and Guido from OLX Group, where they talk about their usage of Kotlin on the backend with DropWizard for their financial payment system. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We chat with Artur about their adoption of Kotlin, Gradle Kotlin DSL and their adoption of Kotlin as a whole. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We talk to Luca Naldini from Shazam about their use of Kotlin on the backend, where they have split a large monolith into a bunch of microservices, some of which are now being written in Kotlin. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We chat with Brent Watson about his involvement and background in Kotlin, as well as starting a Kotlin meet-up, getting people to participate and lessons learned. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We discuss scripting with Kotlin, its uses, its shortcomings and how the Open Source project kscript enhances on what Kotlin provides out of the box. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We talk to Jon and Clint about Micrometer, a new Pivotal project that helps in application monitoring, whether you're deploying hundreds of microservices or just a couple of small apps. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We chat with Nikolay Igotti, on everything Kotlin/Native. What it is, how it interops with the existing ecosystem, how the memory management model works, and much much more. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We chat with Tyler and Nate about the adoption of Kotlin and what is mostly a Groovy shop and how they've gradually moved towards Kotlin while being able to interop with Groovy and Grails. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

On this show we discuss using Kotlin targeting JavaScript to create Firefox browser extensions. Kirill discusses the process and how the overall experience was. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

In what could only be described as an episode of Talking Groovy, we sit down with author and long time Groovy developer to talk about Kotlin and what he feels about the language, and where it sits in his toolbox. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.