Kotlin Beyond Spring: Backend Engineering & AI Agents
Java User Group PH and Salmon are teaming up for a collaboration meetup!
Join us for an evening of learning and conversations with fellow developers in the Java Community. We’re welcoming topics across Java, Kotlin, AI technologies, with speakers sharing their knowledge and experiences.
Stay for dinner, meet fellow developers, and get a chance to win our giveaways!
Agenda:
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM - Registration and Pre-Event Networking
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM - Introductions
Speakers: Tristan Mahinay and Jansen Ang and the Salmon Team
6:40 PM - 7:10 PM - How We Build a Backend with Kotlin and Ktor Instead of Spring.
Why did our team move away from the familiar Spring stack and build a backend with Kotlin, Ktor, and a set of independent libraries? In this talk, Aleksei will share the problems they set out to solve, the trade-offs and costs of making the switch, and where they ended up.
Speaker: Aleksei Pak, Lead Software Engineer at Salmon
7:10 PM - 7:40 PM - Offline-First Kotlin: Building Mobile Apps That Keep Working When the Internet Doesn’t
Speaker: Roberto Viray, System Architect at Negotech Solution
7:40 PM - onwards: Raffle, Food and Networking
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