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Ktor 3.0 is faster, better integrated with Kotlin tools, and offers more options for client-server apps. Find more details in the blog post.
Introduction As an experienced Java developer, you're likely familiar with robust, full-featured web frameworks, like Spring Boot. Today, we'll explore Ktor, a toolkit for building server applications on JVM with Kotlin. Ktor was designed from the ground up to take advantage of Kotlin’s features,…
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The new AWS SDK for Kotlin was announced at AWS re:Invent in December 2021. Using the SDK, you can build Kotlin applications that work with Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, DynamoDB, and more. The SDK is currently in preview and is expected to become stable soon. The SDK was designed from the ground up to …
In this post, I’m going to walk you through my solution to the Advent of Code 2021 Day 1 task. Of course, I used Kotlin to solve it! https://www.youtube.com/embed/76IzmtOyiHw The input for the task is a text file, where each line is a number that represents a measurement of the depth o…
Grouping and counting the characters in strings and collections is a very typical task given in coding interviews. Usually, the solutions for such tasks are quite simple. In this blog post, we learn about a few useful functions in Kotlin that make set operations really simple. The task: custo…
Kotlin was designed to be very similar to Java to make migration as smooth as possible. However, Kotlin was also designed to improve the developers' experience by providing a more expressive syntax and a more sophisticated type system. To take full advantage of the language and write more concise co…
Kotlin Coroutines 1.5.0 delivers GlobalScope that is now marked as a delicate API, extensions for JUnit, the refined Channel API, and stabilized reactive integrations.
Expedia adopted Kotlin because of its null-safety compiler guarantees, the conciseness of the language, and its full Java interoperability. Interoperability with Java made a gradual Kotlin integration possible without having to fully rewrite applications.
GitLive uses Kotlin Multiplatform to share code between IDE plugins (for all JetBrains IDEs and VSCode), as well as soon-to-be-released mobile applications for iOS and Android. A team of 5 working on the project have written over 12k lines of Kotlin code as a shared library used by 4 different platf…
