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Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition

By : Alexey Soshin
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Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices - Second Edition

By: Alexey Soshin

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Classical Patterns
6
Section 2: Reactive and Concurrent Patterns
11
Section 3: Practical Application of Design Patterns

Section 2: Reactive and Concurrent Patterns

This section focuses on modern approaches to design patterns, such as Reactive and concurrent design patterns, and functional programming in general.

We'll start this section with an introduction to the basic principles of functional programming and how its concepts are embedded in Kotlin. Then, we'll examine concurrency primitives in Kotlin, the most important being coroutines. Once we have a good grasp of both functional programming and coroutines, we'll then see how, by combining them, we can create concurrent data structures that allow us to finely control the flow of our data and the design patterns that allow us to better structure concurrent code.

This section comprises the following chapters: