Kotlin support in Spring Boot 3 Microservices & Webassembly with Kotlin

Topic 1 Kotlin support in Spring Boot 3 Microservices:
Spring Boot 2.0 was released on 1.3.2018 and now we just got the release of Spring Boot 3.0 on 24.11.2022.
So after 4 1/2 years it's finally time to get all those features and updates which did not get released as they would have been a breaking change.
For Spring Boot 3 they also raised the minimum java version to 17.

We'll talk about new features that got introduced and also which features are for Kotlin specifically.
We'll have a look at a diverse set of features and this should rather be a rough overview of everything there is, than a deep dive into each of those features.
To make this a bit more interesting we'll build a microservice with Kotlin and Spring Boot 3 which will include all the neat new shiny stuff.
This talk is also for exploration on my side, as I did not get a lot of time to look at those features so far, but I'm very interested as upgrading to Spring Boot 3 is also on our internal roadmap in george.

Topic 2 Webassembly with Kotlin:
WebAssembly is an open standard designed for running your applications anywhere. As time goes on, more and more programming languages have adopted WebAssembly - to be able to compile to, to integrate, or to do both.
Whilst WebAssembly was designed with the browser in mind, it also got traction outside the browser - even spurring Docker to work on an integration.
Learn what WebAssembly is, as to why so many developers are targeting WebAssembly - and where Kotlin is in the mix!

Schedule:
17:00 - Setup, Sound Check, etc.
17:30 - Open Doors
18:00 - Welcome, Introduction, Meetup News and Housekeeping, Sponsor Messages, Community Interview
18:15 - Kotlin support in Spring Boot 3 Microservices
19:00 - Break
19:15 - Webassembly with Kotlin
20:00 - Networking, Pizza, and Beer
22:00 - Close Doors

Speaker Bio Mario Fleischhacker:
Mario is a Software Engineer at heart - working professionally for over 9 years at multiple projects, as well as keeping up with the ever changing technology landscape.
For the last 18 Months he has been working for Erste Digital as a Software Engineer for a project, which you may have heard of - George.

Speaker Bio Patrick Lamprecht:
Patrick "Lampe" Lamprecht has always been passionate about software engineering since he was little. Starting out with Visual Basic at school to C#, C++ then Java/Kotlin and also a lot of Rust in his freetime. Studying at the Technical University of Vienna he also found some love for everything security related, where he was then also tutoring 4 courses with a focus on security for a few years. After completing the bachelor at the Technical University of Vienna he started working at Erste for George and has since been there for 4 years and is still enjoying the culture of George till now.