Podcasts

Kotlin Lead Language Designer Andrey Breslav on Android Support, Language Features and Future Plans

Following Google’s announcement at Google I/O 2017 that Kotlin would be getting first class support on Android, Wesley Reisz spoke to Andrey Breslav, the lead language designer of Kotlin at JetBrains.

Martijn Verburg on the JCP EC “No” Vote for the Java Platform Module System

Wesley Reisz talks to Martijn Verburg, co-founder of the London Java Community and CEO of jClarity, about the JCP EC “no” vote on the Java Platform Module System (JPMS), which is due to be shipped as part of Java 9. They talk about what JPMS offers, how it works, what the "no" vote means, and what happens next.

Rossen Stoyanchev on Reactive Programming with Spring 5 and Spring WebFlux

Rossen Stoyanchev talks to Wesley Reisz about blocking and non-blocking architectures, upcoming changes in Spring including Spring WebFlux, the reactive web stack in Spring framework 5, due this summer. He also discusses the differences between rxJava and Reactor.

Jean Barmash on Binary RPC with gRPC and Thrift, and Constraint Theory in Product Design

Jean Barmash is the director of engineering for Compass. He talks to Wesley Reisz about binary communication protocols like Apache Thrift and Google’s gRPC, as well as code generation and API design.