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Understand traditional and modern design patterns to improve the design of your application

Combine the benefits of object-oriented, functional, reactive, and concurrent programming

Choose the best microservices architecture and frameworks for your web application

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This book shows you how easy it can be to implement traditional design patterns in the modern multi-paradigm Kotlin programming language, and takes you through the new patterns and paradigms that have emerged. This second edition is updated to cover the changes introduced from Kotlin 1.2 up to 1.5 and focuses more on the idiomatic usage of coroutines, which have become a stable language feature. You'll begin by learning about the practical aspects of smarter coding in Kotlin, as well as understanding basic Kotlin syntax and the impact of design patterns on your code. The book also provides an in-depth explanation of the classical design patterns, such as Creational, Structural, and Behavioral families, before moving on to functional programming. You'll go through reactive and concurrent patterns, and finally, get to grips with coroutines and structured concurrency to write performant, extensible, and maintainable code. By the end of this Kotlin book, you'll have explored the latest trends in architecture and design patterns for microservices. You’ll also understand the tradeoffs when choosing between different architectures and make informed decisions.

Who is this book for?

This book is for developers who want to apply design patterns they’ve learned from other languages in Kotlin and build reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications. You’ll need a good grasp on at least one programming language before you get started with this book. Java or design patterns will be particularly useful, but you’ll still be able to follow along if you code in other languages.

What you will learn

Implement all the classical design patterns using the Kotlin programming language

Apply reactive and concurrent design patterns to make your application more scalable

Discover best practices in Kotlin and explore its new features

Understand the key principles of functional programming and learn how they apply to Kotlin

Find out how to write idiomatic Kotlin code and learn which patterns to avoid

Harness the power of Kotlin to design concurrent and reliable systems with ease

Create an effective microservice with Kotlin and the Ktor framework

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Maxwell Oct 22, 2022

Clearly explained and even entertaining at times with the source code provided on GitHub.

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Samuel Stegall May 31, 2022

"Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices" is a book that covers three major topics: design patterns, commonly-used Kotlin language features, and applications of patterns and language features by designing concurrent and reactive microservices. Currently, I work as an Android programmer. The Android platform uses Kotlin as its flagship programming language, which has convinced me to do a deep-dive on the language and its advanced features, which led me to this book. Because of this book, I have a greater understanding of fundamental Kotlin, the Kotlin language's best features, and how to more effectively write and use Kotlin in my Android apps.This book features many different design patterns, which are very important to learn as you become a more senior software engineer. Proper understanding and application of design patterns allows you to more-effectively structure your code, and communicate your code's intent to other engineers. Because of this, many engineers dedicate time and effort to learning these patterns, making this book a fantastic resource. This book shows examples of each pattern in Kotlin, as well as hypothetical examples of where you might apply a given pattern, which can make this book a great reference on design patterns.While I was reading this, it became very apparent that the designers of the Kotlin language selected keywords for the language to more effectively communicate a given keyword's pattern application. For example, the "object" keyword aligns with the Singleton pattern in the book, where no such exclusive keyword exists in Kotlin's parent language of Java. What this means for readers of this book is that the examples shown in the book are relatively concise and easy to understand. Because of this language design decision, and the multiple design decisions made for the Kotlin language, I can think of no better language to teach and communicate design patterns.The second major focus of this book is on the Kotlin language's features, including its features for functional programming, multithreading, and reasoning around nullability. Kotlin provides more-advanced language features around handling nullability, similar to languages like Go. This helps combat nullability errors, which are a common pain point for developers. The book covers how Kotlin handles nullability, and how you can properly structure your code with nullability in mind, with things like the let function. This nullability concept is a common pain-point among developers, so I find it nice that this book makes strong mention of how to combat this.This book also covers the functional programming techniques and methods that the Kotlin language supports. Most languages still in use today have some form of functional programming available, but Kotlin holds its own by comparison. One thing that I learned was how you could use the "also" function to show intermediate effects in a function chain without having to break the function chain. I haven't seen this in other languages, though it may exist in them. Either way, the book makes special mention of it, and I can think of a few places where it might be useful in some of my projects.This book also covers the multithreading and parallelism aspects of the Kotlin language, which are supported to great effect with things like coroutines, observers, subscribers, and locks. These concepts are very important in Android in particular because all data processing and network requests in Android must take place off of the main thread. This means that any asynchronous app, which is almost all of them, makes use of these features. In my onboarding as an Android developer, this was a point of pain to learn, but this book has really helped iron these concepts out in my mind. I will probably need to review this section a bit more to more fully understand what is happening, but I am significantly better off reading this book to understand these concepts.The last section of the book goes over how to apply the first two sections of the book to produce concurrent and reactive microservices. I used to work as a web developer, so I would occasionally work on back-end projects. Going through these microservice sections, it was nice to see some of the earlier parts of the book applied. Furthermore, it was nice to see an example of how to implement APIs in Kotlin first-hand.Luckily, I found few spelling and grammar errors in this book. It was edited well, structured thoughtfully, and written to be useful. I expect that this will be a book that I keep close by throughout all my time working as an Android developer. My overall rating of this book is 4.5 out of 5. I think that the book is a very, very relevant book for Kotlin programmers and Android developers of all skill levels. I have only two criticisms for the book. The first would be that as approachable as the book is, novice developers will have trouble understanding the section of the book on concurrency: concurrency is an advanced topic that can be somewhat difficult for people to reason about, particularly if a given reader has little exposure to the topic beforehand. My second criticism is that the section about microservices at the end comes up a little bit abruptly and could probably go through some fleshing out. Coming from a prior webdev background, I had little issue interfacing with the API I was writing, but new developers may run into issues interfacing with the API. Also, since this section relies on external things like IntelliJ IDEA and its plugins, the screenshots for this section with respect to the IntelliJ IDEA editor are recently out of date with what's shown in new versions of IntelliJ IDEA.Overall, this is a great book that I'll keep by my side mostly to reference the different Kotlin design patterns and language features. I expect that I'll be referencing it regularly as these patterns and features come up in my work.

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Android Developer Jan 31, 2022

I'm an Android developer who is always trying to brush up on my fundamentals. This book is great for anyone working with Kotlin and has maybe looked at the gang of four classic in the past. This takes those design patterns and ideas and translates them into easy to understand examples, with arguably better guidance of how or when you would apply them into your code.The introduction to Kotlin in the first half of the book was still valuable to me, even though I've been working with it for coming up to two years.I felt the author struck the balance perfectly between talking technically whilst keeping the content accessible, with a light hearted approach to the examples.Highly recommended and I'll definitely keep an eye out for other books by them.Dave,Android Developer

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Santosh Pandit Feb 05, 2022

This book is simply awesome n perfect to learn design patterns in kotlin. It has great content & exercises to test the kotlin knowledge in each chapter. To learn and follow up with learning progress, It has code examples on github repository which I believe is a nice approach for learning new things in programming.Overall I'm very happy to get a copy of it. I would strongly recommend it to anyone who has interest in Kotlin Design Patterns or wants to excell kotlin programming knowledge.

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It helps you understanding core of Kotlin and how actually things works inside in some cases.It helps me in cracking Walmart

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