Hands-on Design Patterns with Kotlin: Build scalable applications using traditional, reactive, and concurrent design patterns in Kotlin - Softcover

Alexey Soshin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788998014 ISBN 13: 9781788998017

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Understand Kotlin design patterns to build maintainable and scalable applications.

Key Features

• Understand the structural, creational, and behavioral Kotlin design patterns
• This book demonstrates the shift from OOP to functional programming and covers reactive and concurrent patterns in a clear and step-by-step manner
• Explore different architectures like microservices and MVC and how to choose between them.

Book Description

Design patterns enable you as a developer to speed up the development process by providing tested, proven development paradigms. Reusing design patterns helps prevent complex issues that can cause major problems and improves your code base, promotes code reuse, and makes the architecture more robust.

The mission of this book is to ease the adoption of design patterns in Kotlin and provide good practices for programmers.

The book begins by showing you the practical aspects of smarter coding in Kotlin, explaining the basic Kotlin syntax and the impact of design patterns. From there, the book provides an in depth explanation about the classical design patterns like Creational, Structural, Behavioral etc before heading into Functional Programming. It then takes you through Reactive and Concurrent patterns, teaching you about Streams, Threads and Coroutines to write better code. Towards the end, you will learn about the latest trends in architecture, exploring the design patterns for microservices and discuss the considerations while choosing between different architectures like microservices and MVC.

By the end of the book, you will be able to efficiently address common problems faced while developing applications and be comfortable working on scalable and maintainable projects of any size.

What you will learn

• Gain an understanding of Kotlin principles, its strengths and weaknesses.
• Understand what classical design patterns look like with Kotlin
• Learn when and how the patterns should be used and what problems they solve.
• Explore Functional Programming with the built-in features of Kotlin
• Efficiently solve real-world problems using reactive and concurrent design patterns
• Use Threads and Coroutines to simplify Concurrent performance.
• Understand Idioms and Antipatterns to write maintainable Kotlin code and avoid common pitfalls
• Learn the design considerations while choosing between different architectures like microservices and MVC.

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers who would like to master design patterns with Kotlin to build efficient and scalable applications. Basic Kotlin programming knowledge is assumed.

About this title

About the Author

Alexey Soshin is a software architect with 12 years of experience in making software, mostly for JVM. He started exploring Kotlin even before Kotlin 1.0 was released, and since then, has been a big enthusiast of the language. While not actively writing software, he speaks about it at various conferences and meetups, or blogs about it.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788998014
• ISBN 13: 9781788998017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 357