Bring Kotlin to Google Cloud - hobby projects to explore the possibility

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About speaker Hello! I’m Toan Android Lead @Inspectorio (check out our opening positions!) https://toan.mobi toantran-ea toan_mobi

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Agenda 1. Why would we care about Kotlin? 2. Context of the talk 3. Explore the support of Google Cloud for Kotlin 4. Idea 5. Implementation (live coding) 6. What I learn from the journey

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Why would we care about Kotlin? 1. Language ﬂuency 2. Java + Kotlin inter-ops capability 3. Great extensibility of the language 4. Growing community with serious investment from Jetbrains and Google

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Context of the talk - I’m looking for 1. Provide the backend capability for the Android app with little/no language change. 2. Scalable and easy to deploy 3. Code sharing between Android app and backend app

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Context of the talk - I’m looking for

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How it’s possible KOTLIN JVM Google Cloud Support

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Google Cloud support Kotlin?

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Hobby app - Calories Intake tracker 1. Create a new log entry for food intake 2. Read all the entries I have 3. Update a certain log entry 4. Delete log entry

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Pick the stacks 1. Google App engine as the option to use on Google Cloud 2. Ktor as the framework for my API app 3. Google Cloud Datastore as the Storage Backend (NoSQL - key-value idea) ×

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Basic setup 1. Create a local project based on Ktor to start 2. Create project on Google Cloud Platform console 3. Enable billing for your project 4. Install Google Cloud SDK 5. Install Java 8 or or higher on your local development machine

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Get some code!

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Test it out!

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Switch to live code

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What I learn from the journey 1. I should have the project setup with App Engine template to debug the app properly. 2. I had some hiccups with Ktor framework in encoding 3. Short learning curve 4. Quick to prototype and show it live 5. Quick deploy (you see!) 6. Comfortable work with Kotlin

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Step by step guide Blog series - Bring Kotlin to cloud — a hobby project to explore the possibility - Medium https://medium.com/@toantran/bring-kotlin-to-cloud-a-hobby-project-to-explore-the-possibility-part-2-7e96abc6d75f

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Thank you