Micronaut, Gradle and languages Kotlin learned from.

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I spent the weekend at CommitConf a macro conference in Madrid ( 2000 attendees) which mixes different communities (.NET, Javascript. PHP, Java, ...). I use this conference every year as a thermometer of the next buzz word. This year, I think that it was kubernetes and microservices. So, I checked for a link with both terms just to feed the hype. Enjoy!

Geb

What's new in Gradle 5.0

📅 Nov 29

What Gradle’s Kotlin DSL does and who should adopt it

How to take full advantage of incremental compilation and annotation processing

Why unexpected dependency version X was selected and how to fix it

What new task APIs are available in Gradle 5.0

Integrate Geb screenshots into spock-reports.

Reports include a link to the PNG or HTML dump directly where you want to consult them.

Geb ability to take screenshots and HTML dumps is mostly unknown by many developers.

Micronaut

TODAY 🔥 - Micronaut Deep Dive

📅 Nov 26-28

Through lectures, real-world examples, and lab exercises, this 3-day, online workshop will arm you with everything you need to immediately start building fast, lightweight microservice and serverless applications using the Micronaut™ Framework.

Deploy a Micronaut application containerized with Jib to Google Kubernetes Engine

Speaking of hype: Kubernetes and Micronaut together in the same tutorial.

What you'll learn.
- How to package a simple Java application as a Docker container using Jib. - How to create your Kubernetes cluster on Kubernetes Engine.
- How to deploy your Micronaut service into Kubernetes on Kubernetes Engine. - How to scale up your service and roll out an upgrade.
- How to access Kubernetes Graphical dashboard.

Gradle

[Spanish] Write Gradle Plugins

Latest talk at MadridGuG about writing Gradle plugins by @jagedn.

I really need to sit down and finish a couple of Gradle plugins which I have in progress before the year ends.

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Misc

Languages Kotlin learned from

@abreslav, the lead language designer for Kotlin, talks about Kotlin design ideas. A lot of Java, Scala and C# and yes, some Groovy concepts (it, with, null-safe operator, elvis operator).