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Easy Backends for Android Developers with Ktor

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Transcript

  1. Easy Backends for Android Developers with Ktor ❤

  2. About Me😜 Software Engineer 💻 @Twiga Foods Athlete🏃 @mc_jayb JabezNzomo99

  3. What we do . . .

  4. Problem Context - Our backend applications are based on microservices

    architecture. - Notifications Service v1 was initially built in Nameko, a python based web framework.

  5. Flawed concurrency model

  6. Scalability

  7. Resource Utilization

  8. Rewrite😌 or nay😢?

  9. Rewrite😌 or nay😢?

  10. None

  11. Why Kotlin ?

  12. Modern, concise and safe language

  13. First class support for concurrency

  14. Interoperability with existing mature java libraries HikariCP

  15. Easy transfer and application of domain knowledge

  16. Web Framework Contenders vs vs

  17. Why Ktor ?

  18. Asynchronous

  19. Unopinionated

  20. Concise and Idiomatic

  21. None

  22. Architecture

  23. None

  24. Let's jump into the code ... https://github.com/JabezNzomo99/notifications-demo