Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Easy Backends for Android Developers with Ktor

Avatar for Android Maestro Android Maestro
August 27, 2021
1
52

Easy Backends for Android Developers with Ktor

Avatar for Android Maestro

Android Maestro

August 27, 2021
Tweet

More Decks by Android Maestro

See All by Android Maestro
Kotlin Coroutines (Hands-On)
Avatar for Android Maestro jabeznzomo99
0
30
Introduction to Kotlin (Hands On)
Avatar for Android Maestro jabeznzomo99
0
120
A Guide to Unit Testing Architecture Components
Avatar for Android Maestro jabeznzomo99
0
48
Android MVVM Architecture
Avatar for Android Maestro jabeznzomo99
0
44
Kotlin Coroutines: Google IO Extended 2019 Nairobi
Avatar for Android Maestro jabeznzomo99
0
26

Featured

See All Featured
Templates, Plugins, & Blocks: Oh My! Creating the theme that thinks of everything
Avatar for Michelle Schulp Hunt marktimemedia
31
2.7k
Intergalactic Javascript Robots from Outer Space
Avatar for Vicent Martí tanoku
273
27k
Why Our Code Smells
Avatar for Brandon Keepers bkeepers
PRO
340
58k
Building a Scalable Design System with Sketch
Avatar for Laura Van Doore lauravandoore
463
34k
Making Projects Easy
Avatar for Brett Harned brettharned
120
6.6k
Context Engineering - Making Every Token Count
Avatar for Addy Osmani addyosmani
9
660
The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: How open-source beats economies of scale, even for LLMs
Avatar for Ines Montani inesmontani
PRO
3
3k
How to Ace a Technical Interview
Avatar for Jacob Kaplan-Moss jacobian
281
24k
Kristin Tynski - Automating Marketing Tasks With AI
Avatar for Tech SEO Connect techseoconnect
PRO
0
150
Tell your own story through comics
Avatar for letsgokoyo letsgokoyo
1
810
Practical Orchestrator
Avatar for Shlomi Noach shlominoach
191
11k
Navigating Team Friction
Avatar for Lara Hogan lara
192
16k

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