Season start of 2024

Hello fellow Kotliners!

We wish all the best and joy for 2024...let's be it a fantastic year for Kotlin!

The start of our 2024 season is presented by the fantastic people over at Bettermile.

Line-Up:

First Talk:

Is Kodee better than ElePHPant?
by Mariusz Sołtysiak

Kotlin and PHP are different, but is one better than the other? We will cover the main differences I encountered during my recent experience of switching from PHP to Kotlin. Can you compare two different worlds?

Second Talk:

Multithreaded Queue Listeners
by Stephanie Blair and Majd Hasan

In this talk, we will discuss two approaches to implement multithreaded queue listeners with back pressure using both the traditional method of thread pools and the modern way of using coroutines.

Third Talk:

Ktor + htmx: the perfect mix for your pet project
by Pasha Finkelshteyn

Speaker BioL

Pasha Finkelshteyn

Years of experience made Pasha know the IT through and through, and data is the thing he fell in love with. He writes in Kotlin, and speaks at conferences. Also, he is the author and maintainer of Kotlin API for Apache Spark

Stephanie Blair

Stephanie has many years of software design & development experience. Stephanie's interests lie in the areas of software architecture, parallelisation, high-volume transactions, and security. Currently, Stephanie works with server-side Kotlin at Bettermile for the Data Gateway team in the Better Route tribe.

Majd Hasan

Majd Hasan brings over 6 years of backend software engineering experience, specializing in cloud-first applications. He is currently working mainly with Kotlin for backend development at Bettermile for the Better Places team.

Mariusz Sołtysiak

Software Engineer with over 17 years of experience. Passionate about new technologies. Fan of pragmatic programming and software craftsmanship.