We chat with Arnaud about Koin, a new dependency injection framework written from the ground up in Kotlin. We discuss the why, the how and whether in this day and age it makes sense to even have dependency injections frameworks. Spoiler…it does. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from…
In this episode we chat to Amanda about how she joined the Kotlin community and the work she’s been doing around test automation. As well as the current status of development fatigue that many suffer from. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.
We chat with Bartek about everything Annotations, including why he decided to use extension functions to overcome some of the issues he’s faced. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.
We catch up with Cedric Beust, a long time user of Kotlin to see his thoughts on the progress of the language, why he chose to stick to Kotlin, his thoughts on mobile multi-platform support in Kotlin as well as a few discussions around functional programming and KEEP87. For links to show notes, please visit…
In this episode chat with the awesome Michael Hunger about neo4j, GraphQL and some other interesting topics such as programming for kids. If you’re not familiar with neo4j, it’s a graph database that allows you to model your data in terms of relationships and easily run complex queries. For links to show notes, please visit…
Allegro is the largest online Polish retailer and in this episode we chat with Rafal and Konrad about their adoption of Kotlin, how they first used it on server-side then mobile. We also discuss their views on Spring Fu, Ktor, Functional Programming, and even Domain Drive Design! For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com…
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 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.
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…
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.