Kotlin

Beautify Third-Party APIs with Kotlin

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

Native-image with Quarkus

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

Build and Test Non-Blocking Web Applications with Spring WebFlux, Kotlin and Coroutines

In this article, we will develop a simple RESTful API using Spring WebFlux and aim to leverage the special Kotlin extensions in Spring.

Native-image with Micronaut

Last week, I wrote a native web app that queried the Marvel API using Spring Boot. This week, I want to do the same with the Micronaut framework. Creating a new project Micronaut offers two options to create a new …

Native-image with Spring Boot

As the Cloud has become more widespread, the Spring ecosystem has been forced to cope with GraalVM native. While it still has room for improvement, it does the job.

Extending Third-Party APIs in Different Languages

I’d like to describe how to add new behavior to an existing object/type. I won’t use any reactive type to make it more general.

Hazelcast + Kibana: Best Buddies for Exploring & Visualizing Data

In this article I describe how you can benefit from such a data visualization front-end without writing a single line of code.

Kotlin and FaaS: An Impossible Union?

Why the JVM platform is a bad idea for FaaS and a proposal for alternatives to use Kotlin nonetheless.

Debugging Tutorial 1 – Introduction: Conditional Breakpoints

In this series, I’ll walk you through the process of debugging applications and finding issues within them.

Multiple Ways to Configure Spring

Many alternatives are available to configure your Spring app.

I’d like to list them in this post, leaving Spring Boot out of the picture on purpose.

The State of JVM Desktop Frameworks: Jetpack Compose for Desktop

previous articles of this series were dedicated to frameworks that adopted the same traditional Object-Oriented-Programming approach. Components were modeled as classes.

This week’s article is dedicated to Jet Compose for Desktop, the new kid on the block that offers a completely different approach.