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Mastering High Performance with Kotlin

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Mastering High Performance with Kotlin

Overview of this book

The ease with which we write applications has been increasing, but with it comes the need to address their performance. A balancing act between easily implementing complex applications and keeping their performance optimal is a present-day requirement In this book, we explore how to achieve this crucial balance, while developing and deploying applications with Kotlin. The book starts by analyzing various Kotlin specifcations to identify those that have a potentially adverse effect on performance. Then, we move on to monitor techniques that enable us to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize performance metrics. Next, we look at techniques that help to us achieve high performance: memory optimization, concurrency, multi threading, scaling, and caching. We also look at fault tolerance solutions and the importance of logging. We'll also cover best practices of Kotlin programming that will help you to improve the quality of your code base. By the end of the book, you will have gained some insight into various techniques and solutions that will help to create high-performance applications in the Kotlin environment
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Functional programming

This section aims to consolidate your understanding of functional programming and when you should use it.

Functional programming is based on the following features:

  • Pure functions
  • First-class functions
  • Higher-order functions
  • Function composition
  • Typeclasses
  • Lambdas
  • Closures
  • Immutability

Contrary to object-oriented languages, which are written in an imperative style, functional programming languages are written in a declarative style.

Declarative versus imperative

With functional programming, you can write code that allows you to concentrate on business logic instead of specific implementations. The following example is written in an imperative style:

val numbers = listOf(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
val odds...