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Kotlin As A Backend: An Usecase

This document discusses an organization called Team Optophone that is building a new backend system to replace their legacy system using Kotlin and microservices. They chose Kotlin because it facilitates distributed computing, allows them to write less and more concise code, and helps them avoid building another difficult to maintain monolith like their previous system. The team found that Kotlin generates Java-compatible bytecode, supports their tooling, and improves code quality. They encountered some learning curves but have been productive. The document shares some code samples to demonstrate their Kotlin-based work.

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Kotlin As A Backend: An Usecase

This document discusses an organization called Team Optophone that is building a new backend system to replace their legacy system using Kotlin and microservices. They chose Kotlin because it facilitates distributed computing, allows them to write less and more concise code, and helps them avoid building another difficult to maintain monolith like their previous system. The team found that Kotlin generates Java-compatible bytecode, supports their tooling, and improves code quality. They encountered some learning curves but have been productive. The document shares some code samples to demonstrate their Kotlin-based work.

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KOTLIN AS A BACKEND

AN USECASE

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INTRODUCTION
ABOUT US

• Team Optophone
 We deal with document and data capture.
 Most of the team is formed by Java Developers.
 Some are in their first programming job.
 No one in the team, except for me, ever touched
Kotlin before this assignment.

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INTRODUCTION
OUR PROBLEM

• We have a legacy system


 Our legacy system, SDCA, is a monster and it will be killed.
 It’s a monolith, really hard to give maintenance and broke every letter in
the SOLID principle.
 It’s really, really verbose.
• We are building a new one(s), greenfield!
 Event-Driven Architecture.
 Microservices in AKS.
 We use Quarkus as a base framework.
 We decided to go with Kotlin instead of Java!

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KOTLIN

BUT WHY?

“OMG, we are a bank, we need 6,022 140 76 × 1023 steps of approval, do we really need to do
that? Do you want this headache?”.
“Yes, hold my beer” – Team Optophone

• We started by designing our software, no code was written and no


technology was chosen until we designed what we needed to do.
• After the design sessions, we went down to the following points:
 We will be event-driven
 We want to be thread-safe and facilitate distributed computing
 We don’t want to build another SDCA
 We want to write less and more concise code
 We want to own our solution

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KOTLIN
WHAT IS KOTLIN

• It’s a JVM language


• It’s maintained by Jetbrains
• It’s currently at version 1.5.20
• Interesting Functionalities
 Native Null-Safety
 Complete Interop with Java
 Proper Function Types
 Support Reified Generics
 No checked exceptions
 Extension Functions
 Type alias
 Operator Overloading
 Coroutines
 Immutable by Default
 Smart Casts
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MOST LOVED LANGUAGES: STACK OVERFLOW 2020 SURVEY

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KOTLIN
INSIDE ABN AMRO

• What about building?


 We use the same pita-pipeline templates for Java maven, no change is
required.
• Security wise, did you validate it?
 Kotlin generates Java 8 or 11 compatible bytecode, particularities are
now validated by the current Fortify version used at Abn Amro
 It’s supported by Nexus IQ
 It’s supported by Sonar
 Pretty much the same stuff that we apply to java, we can apply to Kotlin.
• What about Code Quality?
 We are enforcing it on developer-machine using Detekt and SonarLint,
to reduce bike-shedding and keep the same formatting between our
codes.

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KOTLIN
PEOPLE WISE

• Is your manager, P.O and scrum master aware?


 Yes, it was a team discussion, we decided together and we stand for our
decision.

• Overall, how is the team dealing with it?


 Some learning curve at first, we did a lot of pair programming and
learned it together.
 The development speed is good and the team seems confident.
 We are happy with the code-quality and code legibility.

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KOTLIN
NEGATIVES?

• On Abn Amro, Kotlin is used only for apps, so the community is smaller.
• It is a deviancy from the “Default WoW” of the bank.
• Has a small learning curve, but is there.
• Harder to find Developers out-the-box
• People are resistant to try new stuff.

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KOTLIN
OUR NUMBERS

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KOTLIN
OUR NUMBERS

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KOTLIN
TALK IS CHEAP, SHOW ME THE CODE

https://dev.azure.com/cbsp-abnamro/GRD0001016/_git/doremi
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