The last time we wanted to organize a Hackathon our plans were thwarted by “you know what”. This state of affairs has lasted so long that we just couldn’t Read more
How to find all objects that use dblinks to connect to remote servers (using regular expressions on Oracle’s all_views)
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First – create temporary table as data of dictionary view ALL_VIEWS and convert column TEXT (view text) to CLOB type
CREATE TABLE tmp_views AS SELECT a.owner , a.view_name,
Announcing Krush – idiomatic persistence layer for Kotlin, based on Exposed
TL;DR
We've released a persistence library for Kotlin, you can find it on our Github. It’s a JPA-to-Exposed SQL DSL generator.
The state of persistence in Kotlin
One of the key decisions that helped Kotlin gain massive popularity was to reuse Java ecosystem instead of inventing it’s own. This means that you can safely use Kotlin as a primary language for a project developed using any popular Java stack like Spring Boot and built with Java build tool like Maven. What this also means is that natural choice for persistence layer in Kotlin is Spring Data with JPA 3 with Hibernate as an implementation.
However, JPA, which highly relies on mutable objects and dirty checking, may not look like pure Kotlin, which tries to embrace functional programming and immutability. The official Spring JPA guide for Kotlin uses mutable classes and properties which is not really idiomatic for Kotlin where you want to use immutable data classes whenever it’s possible.
Being agile in 2019
On 22nd and 23rd October, with a few other Touks, I’ve been to a very inspiring event – Agile By Example conference in Warsaw. It’s a place for all those that Read more
Deep dive into Spring Boot Actuator HTTP metrics
The experience of developing “Quak” during a hackathon.
In March 2019 we held a 2-day hackathon named “Ship IT!” in TouK. I was part of the team developing “Quak” – a 2D Liero/Soldat inspired game where players can immerse Read more
Hacking a robot
Previous post have summarized “THE HACKATHON” in TouK. Today we will present one of the projects in greater detail – “Lidar/ROS.org based Read more
TouK Hackathon – March 2019
Hackathons are prone to fail. It’s because we have very little time to create something useful, actually working and making a wow!-effect.
So this time we wanted to run Read more
How we use Kotlin with Exposed at TouK
Why Kotlin?
At TouK, we try to early adopt technologies. We don’t have a starter project skeleton that is reused in every new project, we want to try something that fits the project needs, even if it’s not that popular yet. We tried Kotlin first it mid 2016, right after reaching 1.0.2 version. It was getting really popular in Android development, but almost nobody used it on the backend, especially — with production deployment. After reading some “hello world” examples, including this great article by Sebastien Deleuze we decided to try Kotlin as main language a new MVNO project. The project was mainly a backend for mobile app, with some integrations with external services (chat, sms, payments) and background tasks regarding customer’s subscription. We felt that Kotlin would be something fresh and more pleasant for developers, but also liked the “not reinventing the wheel” approach — reusing large parts of Java/JVM ecosystem we were happy with for existing projects (Spring, Gradle, JUnit, Mockito).
Not so easy functional programming in JavaScript
Introduction
JavaScript allows for operating on arrays in a functional way, e.g. using filter or map functions. As an argument for these functions we can pass lambda expression Read more