Reactive Kafka With Spring Boot – DZone

Event-driven architectures are at the core of modern, scalable systems. Reactive Kafka, when combined with Spring Boot and WebFlux, offers a powerful approach to building non-blocking, high-throughput services. In this article, we’ll focus on building generic, easily configurable consumers and...

October 25, 2024

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Day 31. Technical debt

Code quality is a cornerstone of programming. Rapid development without attention to quality is a direct path to increased technical debt. This makes our lives more complicated in the future. However, my projects often don’t reach this future because they...

October 11, 2024

Battle of the programming languages: Kotlin vs Java in the wake of AI

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Battle of the programming languages: Kotlin vs Java in the wake of AI

As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the tech landscape, developers are increasingly faced with the task of selecting which programming languages are the most beneficial and effective in terms of AI development. Taking into consideration the rapid growth of AI...

September 24, 2024

Mastering Kotlin Flows: Simplifying Reactive Programming in Android

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Mastering Kotlin Flows: Simplifying Reactive Programming in Android

In modern Android development, handling data streams and asynchronous tasks is crucial, especially when dealing with real-time data updates, network requests, and UI changes. Kotlin Flow, part of Kotlin Coroutines, simplifies reactive programming and helps developers manage asynchronous data flows...

September 17, 2024

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How to Use Kotlin Notebook for Free

Kotlin Notebook is a fun way to experiment with Kotlin, whether you’re testing out Kotlin syntax or exploring libraries. But, to use the Kotlin Notebook Plugin in IntelliJ or Android Studio, you need an Ultimate Subscription, which makes it less...

September 5, 2024

Kotlin Coroutines and OpenTelemetry Tracing – DZone

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Kotlin Coroutines and OpenTelemetry Tracing – DZone

I recently compared three OpenTelemetry approaches on the JVM: Java Agent v1, v2, and Micrometer. I used Kotlin and coroutines without overthinking. I received interesting feedback on the usage of @WithSpan with coroutines: Indeed, the @WithSpan annotation has worked flawlessly...

August 22, 2024

Transitioning from Java to Kotlin: Why Kotlin is the Future of Android

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Transitioning from Java to Kotlin: Why Kotlin is the Future of Android

Introduction Java has been the backbone of Android app development since its inception, but over the past few years, Kotlin has emerged as a powerful alternative. With Google’s official endorsement of Kotlin as a first-class language for Android development in...

August 19, 2024

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Default Map Value – DZone

In this post, I’ll explain how to provide a default value when querying an absent key in a hash map in different programming languages. Java Let’s start with Java, my first professional programming language. In older versions, retrieving a value...

August 16, 2024

Implementing Flutter Barcode Scanner with Kotlin and CameraX for Android

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Implementing Flutter Barcode Scanner with Kotlin and CameraX for Android

When considering the creation of a Flutter barcode scanner application, your first thought might be to search for an existing Flutter plugin. One option is to combine the camera plugin with a barcode scanning plugin, or to utilize a barcode...

April 28, 2024

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I've just open sourced N8

Hiya N8 is a pure kotlin, state based navigation library. I’ve open sourced it a bit earlier than I usually would have but that means there is still stuff to do if anyone is interested… There are some easy issues...

April 12, 2024

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