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 financial payment system.
Greenfield Kotlin at OLX
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 financial payment system.
We chat with Artur about their adoption of Kotlin, Gradle Kotlin DSL and their adoption of Kotlin as a whole.
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.
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.
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.