

Talking Kotlin
Talking Kotlin
A bimonthly podcast that covers the Kotlin programming language by JetBrains, as well as related technologies.
Episodes
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Mar 28, 2018 • 33min
Charting with Kello Charts
We discuss charting with Charles, as well as forking of open source projects when they're no longer maintained, dealing with legacy code as well as working with APIs in Kotlin.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Mar 14, 2018 • 36min
Going Serverless with Marcos Placona
We sit down with Marcos to discuss Serverless technology, where it fits on the spectrum of technologies and how to use Serverless with Kotlin.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Feb 28, 2018 • 35min
Kotlin on the backend at Meshcloud
We chat with Stefan and Johannes on their adoption of Kotlin at Meshcloud, a cloud provider company based in Germany. We chat about where they use Kotlin, how they adopted and the tools they use to monitor their coverage of different languages.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Feb 14, 2018 • 37min
React with Kotlin
We chat with Dave Ford about the concepts and ideas behind React, how it helps in creating web applications and what Kotlin brings to the picture.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Jan 29, 2018 • 39min
Zally An API Linter
Zally is an API Linter by Zalando. We talk to two of the authors about why they created such a tool and where Kotlin fits in to all this.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Jan 15, 2018 • 43min
Arrow Functional Library
We talk with Mario, Raul and Paco, authors of Funktionale and Kategory respectively about functional programming in Kotlin, along with a new surprise project they have in store!
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Dec 28, 2017 • 35min
Internal Development at JetBrains
We talk with Eduard Guskiy, team lead for internal development at JetBrains. Eduard and his team work on a series of applications that are either customer facing or for internal usage. We speak about their migration to Kotlin and how they ported an existing Java/Spring/Struts application to Kotlin.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Dec 14, 2017 • 33min
Kotlin at BBC Sports
We chat with Dai and John on using Kotlin at BBC Sports and the challenges they've faced, along with some of the things they've encountered when using Kotlin, such as whether lack of nullability forces us to be more proactive in terms of error control.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Nov 28, 2017 • 31min
Data Science with Thomas Nield
Chatting to Thomas Nield about Data Science, what it is and why he feels Kotlin is a great fit for manipulating data to extract information.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Nov 13, 2017 • 33min
Usergroups and community with Guy Heylens
We sit down with Guy Heylens, founder of the Kotlin Belgium User Group about the challenges and rewards of setting up a user group, and whether it continues to make sense in putting in the effort given the amount of online resources.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com