Developing Ultra-Light REST Microservices in Pure Kotlin

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Kotlin (the JetBrains language) is used to build ultra-light REST microservices using the http4k framework. The talk covers http4k's pure-Kotlin approach, its App-as-a-Function model, full client/server HTTP symmetry, and how that yields a very lightweight, testable, modular and robust microservice architecture, illustrated with slides and live coding.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 5:59Why Kotlin for microservices
3. 11:36Http4k key concepts
4. 19:25Ultra-light microservice benefits
5. 27:12Resilience and monitoring
6. 31:50Live coding demo
7. 43:28Experience and conclusion

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