Talking Kotlin

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 financia...

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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