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Building microservices with Kotlin and Spring Boot

It's been a while since Kotlin arrived. Kotlin is a JVM language created by JetBrains developed to be interoperate with Java libraries and apis. What draws attention about Kotlin is its simplicity. If you find Java too verbose, you also will be interested in Kotlin because it is possible to transit between both languages easily. Okay then, this post is supposed to be very short, so, let's begin. We are going to build a simple crud app using Spring Boot, specifically Spring Boot Data Rest and use Kotlin (of course)…

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Building microservices with Finatra and Slick

I've been away for a while and I've been playing with Finatra, so, I decided to write this post because I really enjoyed using it. Lately I've been using Scala a lot in my personal projects and even for testing my Java applications (it is much better than using JUnit, believe me), so, I also tried a few scala web frameworks out and I found out that Finatra is the easiest one (at least for me). First of all, what is Finatra? Well, it is a web framework created by…

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