Kotlin

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May 13, 2022 Miro Wengner

Let's look at how frameworks work under the hood, namely Quarkus and Spring Boot, and how many threads they initiate to serve up results.

Let's examine a program selection control mechanism, for a value, expression or variable type to influence program flow execution, for …

Java is infamous for its NullPointerException: calling a method or accessing an attribute of an object that has not been initialized.

Learn about observability configurations and libraries required over a range of frameworks using two JVM languages, namely Java and Kotlin.

Kover is a code coverage tool for Kotlin. It's still in incubator phase but I took it for a spin and it is already very useful as part of …

It is more beneficial to use sealed and value class instead of enumerations in Kotlin; let’s find out why.

The DurationAPI is coming out of its experimental stage and offers a nice DSL to easily work with time durations.

Considering a fast data producer and a slow data consumer, backpressure "pushes back" on the producer, not to be overwhelmed by data.

Learn how to improve the API provided by third-party libraries by combining Kotlin extension functions and delegation.

Quarkus brings an exciting take to the table. Unlike Micronaut, it doesn't generate additional bytecode during each compilation.