Marrying Kafka and Kotlin/Native: The Amazing Adventures of a Java Dev in Kotlin/Native

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A Java developer describes implementing a Kafka client for Kotlin/Native, covering what a Kafka client does and why they needed a native Kotlin implementation. The talk explains C interop challenges with a native library, how Kotlin Native coroutines differ and how to avoid common pitfalls, and how to structure a Kotlin MPP project on Gradle so the client works; it finishes with a demo using the client as a library.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:07Kafka and Kotlin/Native
3. 3:14What is a Kafka client
4. 5:53Why build a Kafka client
5. 6:57Project structure
6. 9:50Why librdkafka
7. 10:32Kotlin/Native advantages
8. 13:30Kotlin/Native disadvantages
9. 14:14Multiplatform setup
10. 17:13Linking issues and fixes
11. 19:27Variadic functions problems
12. 21:17Handling varargs in interop
13. 28:51Working with pointers
14. 33:02Coroutines multithreading
15. 38:36Consumer polling strategy
16. 40:50Workers vs threads
17. 43:50Live demo and code
18. 48:01Q&A

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