Kotlin Meetup - Idiomatic Interop & Slate Kit (part 1). Plus KotlinConf recap.

The next NYC Kotlin Meetup will be happening on Wednesday November 15th, 2017 at Button.

Talks:

Idiomatic Interop - Kevin Most

Kotlin's most valuable feature is arguably its 100% Java interop, which not only lowers the barrier to entry for its use in existing projects, but gives it access to Java's rich ecosystem of libraries. However, calling clean Java code from Kotlin, and calling clean Kotlin code from Java, is not always so clean. We will discuss strategies and tools that enable you to write code in either language that is clean, safe, and idiomatic whether it's being called from Java or from Kotlin.

Slate Kit (part 1) - Kishore Reddy

This is part 1 of a 2 part intro to Slate Kit, by framework author Kishore Reddy. This presentation discusses the architectural design of building the backend for mobile applications and introduces Slate Kit as an open-source solution. Slate Kit (www.slatekit.com (http://www.slatekit.com/)) is a Kotlin based open-source Mobile Backend and Toolkit for building out the server-side architecture for most web and mobile applications. It serves as an open-source alternative to Parse and FireBase with the ability to be hosted anywhere. It is comprised of 3 high-level parts: Architecture components, Utilities, and Application features. These parts are very general purpose, modular and can be partially or collectively used in any application. Slate Kit currently works with MySql, Spark Java for Web APIs, and has default integration with AWS queues (SQS) and file storage (S3).

KotlinConf 2017 Recap - Brent Watson

We'll be doing a quick (10min) recap of some of the highlights from KotlinConf 2017 which happened in San Francisco last week.

Attendance is limited. There are only 100 spots available. Be sure to RSVP!

Location: Thank you to Button for hosting and providing food and drinks. When you arrive, sign in at the security desk and take the elevator to the 10th floor.

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Speaker Bios:

Kevin is a New York City-based software engineer who is passionate about Android, and excited about Kotlin. Most recently, he has been working at Foursquare on the City Guide Android app.

Kishore Reddy is a New York City based Software Architect, runs a software development agency called CodeHelix Solutions and is an artist and painter in his spare time. He is currently focused on the JVM and uses Kotlin/Scala/Java to build Cloud based solutions on AWS for web and mobile applications. He has over 15+ years experience engineering scalable systems in a variety of technologies and industries. For the last several years, he has extracted and open-sourced projects and components in C#, Scala, and Kotlin that were an integral part of prior solutions.