Jörn Dinkla's Blog

Nov 01, 2025 software-engineering

Announcing NKP 0.1: Static Analysis for Kotlin Projects

I’m excited to share the first MVP release of NKP (aNalysis of Kotlin Programs), a command-line tool for analyzing Kotlin codebases and uncovering architectural insights.

#jvm #architecture #kotlin #object-functional #quality-assurance

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Sep 13, 2022 software-engineering

Test driven development of concurrent programs in Kotlin at KKon 2022

Concurrent and asynchronous applications can be written in Kotlin with coroutines in a precise and structured way. Unfortunately, concurrency often increases the complexity and it is difficult to create bug-free...

#kotlin #parallelism #concurrency #talk #slides #quality-assurance

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Apr 23, 2021 software-engineering

Coroutines in Kotlin at KKon 2021 Warmup

In my talk “Nebenläufigkeit mit Koroutinen strukturieren” at the KKon 2021 Warmup I explained how to structure and organize concurrent programs with coroutines in Kotlin.

#kotlin #parallelism #concurrency #talk #slides

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Jan 10, 2021 software-engineering

The Ray Tracer Challenge in Kotlin

During the chrismas holiday I started a new ray tracer in Kotlin while following the book “The Ray Tracer Challenge.

#kotlin #graphics

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Mar 04, 2020 software-engineering

A short introduction to Kotlin

At a client of ThoughtWorks I gave a talk about the advantages of Kotlin.

#kotlin #jvm #talk #slides

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Dec 01, 2019 software-engineering

Coroutines in Kotlin and Go in iX Developer - "Weniger warten, asynchron arbeiten"

In the article “Verteilte Systeme: weniger warten, asynchron arbeiten” (distributed systems: less waiting, asychronous working) in the german magazine iX Developer Moderne Softwareentwicklung - code(), build(), deploy() I explain the...

#article #kotlin #concurrency #parallelism #golang

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May 25, 2019 software-engineering

Migrating a ray tracer from Java and Groovy to Kotlin (part 3)

I continued to work on migrating my ray tracer to Kotlin. Now the scenes can be specified with a Kotlin DSL and all Groovy code is gone.

#kotlin #graphics

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May 06, 2019 software-engineering

Coroutines in Kotlin and Go on heise Developer

In the article “Weniger warten, asynchron arbeiten” (less waiting, asychronous working) published by heise Developer I explain the theoretical background of coroutines and how to use them in Kotlin and...

#article #kotlin #concurrency #parallelism #golang

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Apr 23, 2019 software-engineering

Concurrency in Kotlin with coroutines

Coroutines are a “new” way to handle concurrency on the JVM. I gave an introduction to coroutines in Kotlin at Thoughtworks. This is basically the translation of the german slides....

#slides #talk #kotlin #concurrency #parallelism #jvm

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Jörn Dinkla at the parallel 2019 conference

Feb 21, 2019 software-engineering

Talk about coroutines in Kotlin at the parallel 2019 conference

Coroutines are a “new” way to handle concurrency on the JVM. At the para//el 2019 conference, I gave an introduction to coroutines in Kotlin.

#slides #talk #kotlin #concurrency #parallelism #jvm

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Jan 02, 2019 software-engineering

Fusion of object oriented and functional programming

The fusion of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and Functional Programming (FP) languages has become increasingly popular in recent years, with many programming languages now offering features and constructs from both...

#kotlin #object-functional #scala #functional-programming

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Oct 06, 2018 software-engineering