Talking Kotlin

We sit down with the Kotlin Advocates at JetBrains to discuss life of a Kotlin advocate, the Kotlin 1.4 release, as well as the online Kotlin 1.4 event happening in October.

28 Aug 202042min

We chat with Vladimir about Compose from a user perspective. We go through the history of UI solutions that have been available for Android, and see how and where Compose fits in. We also briefly talk...

14 Aug 202035min

We sit down with Josh Long to talk about life, the current world situation, and of course Spring and Kotlin. We discuss the adoption of Kotlin over the years, what the Spring team is doing to support ...

28 Juli 202047min

We sit down with Erik to discuss gradient descents and how understanding this can lead to demystifying machine learning. We talk about the value of knowing how things work under the covers, as well as...

14 Juli 202047min

We sit down with the folks from the team at AWS that work on QLDB, to discuss what Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) is, their usage of Kotlin, why they choose Kotlin over Java for this new projec...

30 Juni 202039min

We chat with Roman Belov about the work he's doing at JetBrains with Kotlin for Data Science. We discuss the approach they're taking to work with the existing ecosystem as opposed to try and replicate...

14 Juni 202033min

Jetpack Compose is the new UI toolkit from Google that is Kotlin First. It takes advantage of Kotlin's Compiler Plugin Architecture to provide a performant UI layer for Android development (albeit ext...

28 Maj 202041min

We sit down with Michael Pardo to discuss the MVU pattern, taking a brief look at all the other patterns that have existed for UI development over the years. We then talk about Oolong, a library for K...

15 Maj 202041min