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

Nov 26, 2020 • 36min
apollo graphql
We chat with the folks working on the Apollo library for GraphQL. We discuss what GraphQL is, where Apollo fits in to the equation, and why they decided to provide multiplatform support using Kotlin.

Nov 12, 2020 • 33min
Teaching Kids Kotlin
We chat with Nicolai about teaching kids programming with Kotlin, as well as his project, EngineEmi written in Kotlin, which tries to aid in this task

Oct 14, 2020 • 47min
Kotlin and Google Cloud Platform
We sit down with James Ward from Google to discuss everything Google Cloud Platform and Kotlin. And as a bonus we dive into the past, and Kubernetes

Sep 30, 2020 • 35min
Maths and Kotlin
We chat with Breandan about Differentials and Derivatives, and Maths in general. We look at where and how they can be applied to programming, as well as the Kotlingrad

Sep 14, 2020 • 32min
Fritz2
Fritz2 is a Kotlin framework for developing front-end web applications. Written entirely in Kotlin and targeting JavaScript, Fritz2 takes a reactive approach to development. In this episode we sit down with the authors to learn more about the framework.

Aug 28, 2020 • 42min
Sitting down with the Kotlin Advocates
We sit down with the Kotlin Advocates at JetBrains to discuss life of a Kotlin advocate, the Kotlin 1.4 release, as well as the online Kotlin 1.4 event happening in October.

Aug 14, 2020 • 35min
Adopting Compose
We chat with Vladimir about Compose from a user perspective. We go through the history of UI solutions that have been available for Android, and see how and where Compose fits in. We also briefly talk about Flow and how it can make a great companion to Compose.

Jul 28, 2020 • 48min
Catching up with Josh Long
We sit down with Josh Long to talk about life, the current world situation, and of course Spring and Kotlin. We discuss the adoption of Kotlin over the years, what the Spring team is doing to support Kotlin, and many other things.

Jul 14, 2020 • 47min
Gradient Descent with Erik Meijer
We sit down with Erik to discuss gradient descents and how understanding this can lead to demystifying machine learning. We talk about the value of knowing how things work under the covers, as well as maths, functional programming, and many other topics, including why he chose Kotlin, and what he likes and dislikes of the language.

Jun 30, 2020 • 39min
QLDB
We sit down with the folks from the team at AWS that work on QLDB, to discuss what Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) is, their usage of Kotlin, why they choose Kotlin over Java for this new project, and how their overall experience has been.