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Android Maestro
August 27, 2021
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Easy Backends for Android Developers with Ktor
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August 27, 2021
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Easy Backends for Android Developers with Ktor ❤
About Me😜 Software Engineer 💻 @Twiga Foods Athlete🏃 @mc_jayb JabezNzomo99
What we do . . .
Problem Context - Our backend applications are based on microservices
architecture. - Notifications Service v1 was initially built in Nameko, a python based web framework.
Flawed concurrency model
Scalability
Resource Utilization
Rewrite😌 or nay😢?
Rewrite😌 or nay😢?
None
Why Kotlin ?
Modern, concise and safe language
First class support for concurrency
Interoperability with existing mature java libraries HikariCP
Easy transfer and application of domain knowledge
Web Framework Contenders vs vs
Why Ktor ?
Asynchronous
Unopinionated
Concise and Idiomatic
None
Architecture
None
Let's jump into the code ... https://github.com/JabezNzomo99/notifications-demo