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Zac Siegel

📍 Chicago

Kotlin and Micronaut Programming - Building a personal finance app Day 5

Tonight we continue to work on the GraphQL endpoints, discuss Kotlin extension functions, add a relationship in our GraphQL schema, and finally write a test for our GraphQL endpoint. Follow along and watch indie software design and development on YouTube.

Kotlin and Micronaut Programming - Building a personal finance app Day 4

Day 4 of building a personal finance app with Kotlin and Micronaut. Tonight we continue to work on the integration testing system, update Micronaut to the latest 2.0.0 release, and start work on the GraphQL endpoint. We will be using JUnit5, Docker, Postgres, Kotlin, Micronaut, and GraphQL

Kotlin and Micronaut Programming - Building a personal finance app Day 3

Day 3 of building a personal finance app with Kotlin and Micronaut. Tonight we add more database migrations with Flyway. Create an initial integration test with JUnit5. Then we start setting up a test environment with Docker Compose

Kotlin and Micronaut Programming - Building a personal finance app Day 2

Day 2 of building a personal finance app with Kotlin and Micronaut. Tonight we explore the JDBC interface, database connection pooling, and automated database migrations

Kotlin and Micronaut Programming - Building a personal finance app

Day 0 of building a personal finance app with Kotlin and Micronaut. Tonight we get my new windows machine setup and configure a new Micronaut project.

How I evaluate new technology

When evaluating new technology I always try to clearly define the need, understand its maturiy, popularity, and time for the team to learn it - and always have a backup plan!

Kotlin Scuttlebutt Programming Stream - Server Hello Handshake

Learning how the core scuttlebutt protocol works by developing a Scuttlebot library in Kotlin. In this second stream we take a look at reading the client hello message from the server perspective

Waiting for containers in Docker Compose

Using the dockerize tool to wait for containers to startup in Docker Compose

Testing APIs with Docker and Docker Compose

A look into how I like to setup test infrastructure using docker and docker-compose for APIs

How I use sealed classes in Kotlin

A look into how I like to utilize sealed classes in Kotlin to improve API boundaries