Building Microservices with Helidon and Kotlin

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Helidon runs on Netty and claims near 100% native image friendliness while shipping both a MicroProfile implementation and a pure reactive SE API; the team supplies a Kotlin support package that provides DSLs and extension functions for web server, web client and DB client so Java builder patterns become idiomatic Kotlin. A Java example converts to Kotlin with a few changes (classes must be open), hundreds of Helidon examples are rewritten in Kotlin, compile and run (tests included) though the Kotlin layer remains experimental.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:46Project Helidon
3. 5:39Helidon High-Level Architecture
4. 6:35M MICROPROFILE
5. 12:56Helidon DB Client
6. 14:17Reactive Streams / Messaging
7. 22:24First impressions
8. 23:07Repeating annotations
9. 25:49Extensions
10. 43:34Helidon Resources

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