Kotlin for Server-Side Development: Community Content Roundup #2

Alyona Chernyaeva

The Kotlin community keeps delivering valuable content for server-side development. From gRPC best practices to hands-on Ktor tutorials and Spring integrations, here are the latest highlights.

📖 [Article] Kotlin Tips and Tricks You May Not Know: #6 — Inject Functions in Spring Boot – Elena van Engelen-Maslova shares how to inject functions in Spring Boot for cleaner and more flexible Kotlin code. A simple trick with real impact.

📖 [Article] Learning Ktor Through a Spring Boot Lens. Part 1 – Rafał Maciak compares Spring Boot and Ktor to help developers familiar with Spring get up to speed with Kotlin-first backend development.

🎥 [Video] Spring for GraphQL with Kotlin Coroutines – Piotr Wolak walks you through building reactive GraphQL APIs with Spring for GraphQL and Kotlin coroutines.

📖 [Article series] Kotlin + gRPC by Lucas Fugisawa – A comprehensive series covering real-world practices for building gRPC services in Kotlin:

• Build your first service in four steps
• Enhance Protobuf schema design with Optional, Repeated, Maps, Enums, Oneof and backwards compatibility
• Nesting, Composition, Validations, and Idiomatic Builder DSL
• Streaming, Deadlines, and Structured Error Handling
• Tooling, CI/CD, and Architectural Practices

🎥 [Video] Ktor Server Full Crash Course For Beginners | Build a REST Api in Ktor with JWT Auth | Blog CRUD Api – Sunil Kumar shares a complete beginner-friendly guide to building a secure REST API with Ktor and JWT authentication.

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