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It is quite common to use existing frameworks and libraries for backend application development. If we look at most of the popular frameworks in the Java ecosystem, many of them actually support Kotlin out of the box. There are a lot of Java libraries too. You can use these frameworks and libraries …
Kotlin was created as an alternative to Java, meaning that its application area within the JVM ecosystem was meant to be the same as Java’s. Obviously, this includes server-side development. We would love to hear about your experience with Kotlin for developing server-side applications and share …
We’re pleased to announce the release of version 1.4.0 of the Kotlin Coroutines library. The highlights of the release are StateFlow and SharedFlow, which are being promoted to stable API. StateFlow and SharedFlow are designed to be used in cases where state management is required in an asynchronous execution context with Kotlin Coroutines.
In the previous blog post, we learned about snapshot dependencies and how they can be applied to create build chains in TeamCity. In this blog post, we describe how snapshot dependencies enable parallel builds. More snapshot dependencies Previously, we started creating the build chain for the demo a…
In TeamCity, when we need to build something, we create a build configuration. A build configuration consists of the build steps and is executed in one run on the build agent. You can define as many build steps as you like in one build configuration. However, if the number of steps grows too large, …
TeamCity offers a number of ways to help you work with tests. First of all, it presents the test results for each build execution so it’s easy to analyze what happened and why something has failed. Besides that, TeamCity includes advanced features like code coverage, flaky test detection, metadata i…
⚠️ Update from October 12, 2020: TeamCity TestDrive has been deprecated. If you are looking for a simple way to try TeamCity without downloading and installing it on a server, please consider giving a try to TeamCity Cloud. TeamCity Cloud is a fully-managed CI/CD solution that automati…
TeamCity provides support for multiple technologies and programming languages. In TeamCity 2019.1, support for Go has been included in the distribution. In this blog post, we will explain how to configure TeamCity to work with Go programs.…
The support for pull requests in TeamCity was first implemented for GitHub as an external plugin. Starting with TeamCity version 2018.2 the plugin is bundled in the distribution package with no need to install the external plugin. The functionality has since been extended in version 2019.1 to suppor…
While TeamCity provides a lot of functionality out of the box and bundles a number of plugins in its distribution package, there are still use cases where you might need something extra. In this blog post, we are going to list 14 cool plugins that add new features or integrate with external tools. T…
In this blog post, we are going to look at how to test TeamCity configuration scripts. Getting started with Kotlin DSL Working with configuration scripts Creating build configurations dynamically Extending Kotlin DSL Using libraries Testing configuration scripts Given that the script i…
The recording of our April 30 webinar, Getting Started with TeamCity Plugins is now available on the JetBrains YouTube channel. In this webinar, we developed a custom runner plugin for TeamCity. The plugin adds a new build step for the echo command and displays the result of the execution in a cust…
