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.

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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 Read more

Deep dive into Spring Boot Actuator HTTP metrics

Actuator Metrics

As reported in Michał Bobowski post, we heavily use Spring Boot Actuator metrics system based on Micrometer. It provides a set of Read more

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 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 robot”. 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 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, Read more

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 Read more

Testing NiFi Flow – The good, the bad and the ugly

Introduction

Some time has passed since we wrote our last blogpost about Apache NiFi where we pointed out what could be improved. It is very Read more

Loops performance in Groovy

Introduction

In the 2018 Advent of Code challenged I solved all the puzzles in Groovy. It is pretty obvious, that choosing good data structure Read more