
Talking Kotlin
A bimonthly podcast that covers the Kotlin programming language by JetBrains, as well as related technologies.
Latest episodes

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Dec 8, 2022 • 48min
From MIDDLE to SENIOR developer with Marcin Moskala
What distinguishes a mid-level developer from a senior one, and how do you make the leap?
Find out in this episode of Talking Kotlin! Our guest is Marcin Moskala – an experienced developer, trainer, speaker, and author of books on Kotlin.
Marcin on Twitter - https://twitter.com/marcinmoskala
Marcin's website - https://marcinmoskala.com

Nov 22, 2022 • 43min
Multiplatform Synchronization with Kotlin and Realm + MongoDB
This time we talked to Sudarshan Muralidhar and Christian Melchior from MongoDB + Realm about their new multiplatform product that is created to ensure the consistency and consolidation of data across devices and your backend.
Sudarshan Muralidhar on Twitter - https://twitter.com/sudssm
Christian Melchior on Twitter - https://twitter.com/chrmelchior
Realm Kotlin SDK Documentation - https://www.mongodb.com/docs/realm/sd...
Atlas Sync documentation - https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas/ap...

Aug 25, 2022 • 43min
Compose in CashApp with Jake Wharton and Saket Narayan
This time we are talking to Jake Wharton and Saket Narayan about how Kotlin and Compose are used in CashApp and why “it is time for XML to die!”

Aug 4, 2022 • 41min
Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices
We chat with Alexey about Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices and his recently released book, "Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices."
Alexey on Twitter – https://twitter.com/alexey_soshin
25% OFF THE BOOK use 25ALEXEY code – https://www.packtpub.com/
KotlinConf'23 – https://kotlinconf.com/

Jun 28, 2022 • 58min
Turbocharging Kotlin: Arrow Analysis, Optics & Meta
We chat with Raul, Simon, and Alejandro to learn how Arrow adds functional paradigms and safety to Kotlin, and how it aims to influence the future of the language.

Apr 19, 2022 • 51min
70 Billion Events per Day – Adobe & Kotlin
We talked to Rares Vlasceanu and Catalin Costache from Adobe about how they handle 70 000 000 000 events per day with the help of Kotlin and Ktor.

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Feb 17, 2022 • 45min
Why iOS Developers at Todoist Wanted Kotlin Multiplatform
iOS developers of your favorite to-do app want Kotlin Multiplatform! Why?
In this episode, we talked to Goncalo Silva – CTO of Doist, a company famous for its award-winning to-do list app, Todoist. We covered how Kotlin is used in the company and which parts of the service they share between iOS and Android using Kotlin Multiplatform. But most importantly, we took a deep dive into how they introduced the technology to the development team, and how even their iOS developers came to love Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile. What was their starting point with KMM? Which Kotlin Multiplatform tutorials did they use? How did they decide between Kotlin Multiplatform and Flutter? Want to know the answers to these questions? Check out the full episode!
Goncalo on Twitter - https://twitter.com/goncalossilva
Doist on GitHub - https://github.com/Doist
Doist Careers - https://doist.com/careers

Feb 1, 2022 • 40min
The First Kotlin Commit in Android
We sit down with the man who made the first Kotlin commit in Android – and who is also a long-time fan of the show, apparently! Yigit Boyar (https://twitter.com/yigitboyar) is working on the Android team at Google, bringing you the libraries you use to write your Android apps.

Jan 10, 2022 • 51min
5 Years of Talking Kotlin Special
This Special episode is dedicated to the 5 years anniversary of the Talking Kotlin podcast! Hadi Hariri and Sebastian Aigner discuss how and why the podcast was started, remember funny moments from the past and try to shed some light on what awaits it in the future.

Dec 27, 2021 • 47min
Slacking with Zac Sweers
In this episode we chat with Zac Sweers about all that has happened since his last appearance:
Multiplatform experiments
Kotlin usage in Slack
Thoughts about Compose
Weather in Munich, Malaga, and New York
Zac on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ZacSweers
Zac's website - https://www.zacsweers.dev/