The Exposed framework offers a unique solution to common challenges encountered when working with the JDBC API, setting it apart from frameworks like Hibernate. Its lightweight approach, which eschews the need for extensive mapping and provides type-safe access, leverages the expressiveness of Kotlin. This results in a DSL-like solution that enhances code readability and comprehension.

#Kotlin #Database #lightweight

https://www.atbash.be/2023/09/28/sql-and-orm-alike-database-access-with-kotlin-exposed/

This blog contains some of the performance issues I encountered in my Java career with ORM tools like Hibernate: https://www.atbash.be/2023/09/03/why-orm-and-data-frameworks-are-not-your-best-option/

It contains a few best practices if you make use of an ORM tool or a Data framework to keep your data retrieval performant in production.

But maybe you should not use them at all and just use a lightweight tool that abstracts away the JDBC API and takes care of the mapping.

#java #persistence #performance #hibernate

In my comparison about runtime startup I published two months ago ("Time is code, my friend, https://www.atbash.be/2023/03/12/time-is-code-my-friend/), Kotlin and Ktor performed very well.

In this first blog, I quickly go over a few aspects why you might consider Kotlin and Ktor for your next backend application. For the Jakarta EE users, it shows some of the functionality of JAX-RS, JSON-P and JSON-B.

Here is the link to the blog: https://www.atbash.be/2023/05/02/why-dont-you-create-your-next-backed-end-application-with-kotlin-and-ktor/

Thanks to the many attendees that followed my @jakartaee Integration Testing at the Jakarta EE Tech talk earlier today. If you want to review it or missed, you can watch the recording from the link https://crowdcast.io/e/april19_jakartatechtalk

Links to the resources are:

Slides : https://www.slideshare.net/rdebusscher/jakartaintegrationtestingpdf
Demos : https://github.com/rdebusscher/jakarta-integration-testing-talk
framework : https://github.com/atbashEE/jakarta-integration-testing

Latest blog about it : https://www.atbash.be/2023/04/10/support-for-database-and-jakarta-ee-10-within-jakarta-ee-integration-testing-framework/