Kotlin in Backend Services: A Year in
Kotlin in Backend Services: A Year in

Kotlin in Backend Services: A Year in

Author
Shiv Bade
Tags
kotlin
java
backend
Published
October 12, 2018
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Kotlin wasn’t just for Android anymore. Over the past year, we had multiple production backend services running on Kotlin.
What worked: - Concise null-safe syntax reduced NPEs - Data classes made DTO modeling clean - Coroutines provided a readable async model
Some challenges: - Reflection-heavy libraries needed tuning - DI with Koin felt lighter than Dagger, but less powerful than Guice
Overall, it made backend development more fun and expressive without sacrificing JVM strengths.