kotlin Featured KotlinConf 2025 is a real bowl of fresh air for backend Devs With their keynote that JetBrains intentionally started putting backend developers in the spotlight again. They made big, impactful announcements, both at an ecosystem and language levels and I can't wait to try out all of the new goodies.
kotlin 🎉Celebrating Kotlin 2.0🎉 Upgrading a simple Kotlin and PicoCLI project to Kotlin 2.0 in under 5 minutes to celebrate the new version coming up!
supabase [Unit] Testing Supabase in Kotlin using Test Containers In this article, I'll dive into several methods I've been looking into to unit test a Kotlin application using Supabase and why I finally decided to go for a Docker Compose / Test Containers solution.
kotlin Kotlin Data Classes, shallow copies and immutability Are Kotlin data classes immutable? And does the copy method create shallow or deep copies of my class instances? Let's have a look together
kotlin Measuring time and durations in Kotlin The DurationAPI is coming out of experimental stage, and offers a nice DSL to easily work with Time durations (duh!). If offers the obvious but also nice extra goodies like coercions and ISO/ String conversions and is notably used to calculate processing time.
kotlin Kover : Code Coverage plugin for 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 local or CI workflows! In this article I go through the setup and some of my favourite goodies of the tool.
java Paginate results in a command line application using picoCLI In this article, I describe a way to paginate results in picocli applications.
kotlin Introducing Kotlin at ING, a long but rewarding story This article describes our journey being the first team to run Kotlin in the backend at ING (Netherlands). Hopefully this article will give you some keys on how to introduce it as well in your own large company, and reduce some of the friction you might encounter.
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