How Kotlin is Powering TV Broadcasts Worldwide | Talking Kotlin #139

Sebastian and Márton are joined by Denis Borisevich from RIEDEL Communications, and learn about how Kotlin is used behind-the-scenes to power media, sports, and entertainment broadcasts watched by millions around the globe. Tune in for an exciting story about how Kotlin, Ktor, and Arrow are being used in production for a use case where robust software is mission-critical. 00:00 Introductions 02:42 Events powered by Riedel 03:50 The Kotlin part 06:44 Routing video signals 09:12 Error handling in milliseconds 10:31 The Kotlin part, continued 13:29 TornadoFX! 19:19 On introducing Compose 23:30 Java to Kotlin migration 26:30 Learning Kotlin after C++ 28:44 Unsigned ints in Kotlin 32:09 Arrow! 33:00 Server-side Kotlin 36:25 Functional programming 42:10 Why Kotlin over others? 45:55 Kotlin/Java interop 47:12 A 2-week long test suite 51:35 Confidence in Kotlin 53:05 Future plans 56:00 Wrap-up Useful Links: Riedel Communcations – https://www.riedel.net/en/ TornadoFX – https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx Unsigned integer types – https://kotlinlang.org/docs/unsigned-... Arrow – https://arrow-kt.io/ Ktor – https://ktor.io/ Eurovision – https://eurovision.tv/ Hosts: Sebastian Aigner Website – https://sebi.io/ Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/sebi.io Márton Braun Website – https://zsmb.co Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/zsmb.co Guests: Denis Borisevich LinkedIn –   / dborisevich