Kotlin at Shazam

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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.

About Luca Naldini

Moved to UK 10 years ago, starting his career as a software developer at Ocado. For the past 7 years he's been at Shazam. He's a passionate adopter of Kotlin and Golang.

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