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Talking Kotlin

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

Episodes

Multiplatform Development with Kevin Galligan

We chat with Kevin about multi-platform development with Kotlin. Amongst many things, we discuss its differences with alternative technologies, the state of tooling and libraries, as well as factors people should consider when adopting OSS technologies. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Jan 14, 201941 min

Kotlin at AirBnB

We sit down with Gabriel to discuss the move of AirBnB away from React Native and the adoption of Kotlin. We also discuss the potential of multi-platform projects with Kotlin and what he sees are potential benefits and problems to avoid. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Dec 17, 201835 min

Dependency Injection with Koin

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 the Android Store.

Nov 27, 201835 min

Annotation Processing in Kotlin with Bartek Lipinski

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.

Nov 14, 201833 min

Desktop and Meta-programming with Amanda Hinchman

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.

Oct 29, 201847 min

Catching up with Cedric Beust

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 talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Oct 15, 201837 min

Kotlin at Allegro

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 or download the App from the Android Store.

Oct 01, 201839 min

Neo4j and more with Michael Hunger

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 talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Sep 17, 201841 min

Greenfield Kotlin at OLX

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 t...

Aug 27, 201835 min

Speaking Spek and Gradle

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.

Aug 14, 201838 min

Kotlin at Shazam

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.

Jul 29, 201830 min

Taking part and growing a Kotlin Community

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.

Jul 16, 201838 min

kscript with Holger Brandl

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.

Jun 27, 201835 min

Application monitoring with micrometer

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.

Jun 14, 201836 min

Kotlin Native with Nikolay Igotti

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.

May 28, 201845 min

Groovy and Kotlin Interop at Rocket Travel

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.

May 14, 201850 min

Creating Browser Extensions

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.

Apr 30, 201834 min

Talking Groovy with Ken Kousen

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.

Apr 16, 201835 min

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 28, 201833 min

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.

Mar 14, 201836 min

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 28, 201835 min

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.

Feb 14, 201837 min

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 29, 201839 min

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.

Jan 15, 201843 min

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 28, 201735 min

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.

Dec 14, 201733 min

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 28, 201731 min

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

Nov 13, 201733 min

Multiplatform Development with Eugenio Marletti

We chat with Eugenio from Clue about sharing Kotlin code across multiple platforms and how Kotlin has helped them at Clue. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Oct 27, 201732 min

Kotlin at American Express

Sitting down after Google I/O, we chat with Michael about their adoption of Kotlin at American Express, where they took a slightly different route to others. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Oct 16, 201732 min
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