All 'kotlin' related blog posts

EC2 Charges - They are NAT a joke

How to reduce your AWS costs by avoiding unnecessary NAT Gateway usage

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Emma Moinat
15 September 2022

From TDD to PBT via Kotest

In this post we see how to integrate PBT into your Kotlin tests.

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Garth Gilmour
26 October 2021

Kotlin and FP - The Best of Both Worlds

In our first Kotlin meetup of 2021, Amazon's Katie Levy and Twitter's Shelby Cohen gave an excellent talk on how to combine Kotlin and FP to get 'the best of...

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Zarah Akilagun-Thompson
27 January 2021

A Kotlin DSL for Everyone

Typically, we use Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) in configuration scenarios (think Gradle). But we can also use them internally to make our applications easier to understand.

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Ryan Adams
23 January 2020

Using Koin for Dependency Injection

Koin provides a modern DI framework which supports Kotlin idioms and is usable across conventional, mobile and Cloud based applications.

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Garth Gilmour
29 November 2019

Code Generation With KotlinPoet

KotlinPoet provides a simple API for generating Kotlin source files. It allows you to automate what would otherwise be tedious and repetitive tasks.

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Garth Gilmour
28 November 2019

App Builders 2019

This year we were given the opportunity to attend the AppBuilders Conference at the stunning location of Lugano in Switzerland. Below I will discuss my thoughts on the various talks...

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Neil Armstrong
16 July 2019

Kotlin Everywhere

Considering Kotlin? Here is why we made the switch from Java and why your developers will want to do the same.

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Garth Gilmour
4 September 2018