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Building Microservices with Kotlin and gRPC

Talkat KotlinConf 2019 · 2019-12-04..12-06· [microservices, kotlin]
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Claims that gRPC plus Kotlin coroutines cut boilerplate and lower infra cost at scale are demonstrated with code and a working Death Star demo: bi‑directional streaming, protobuf messages, and real async flows replace callback hell. Production‑grade pieces use gRPC over HTTP/2, compiled protobufs, and Java interop via grpc‑java, with Kotlin glue from Kotlin coroutines and community libraries like kroto‑plus. Cited scale: about 160 million users motivating the switch; demos compile and run and show clearer, suspendable flow control.

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  1. 0:00Start
  2. 4:12Microservices Rock!
  3. 11:09HTTP protocol evolution
  4. 19:33Task for this session
  5. 22:05When user destroys planet ...
  6. 38:55Takeaways
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