Why the Global Scope isn't advised to be used?
Jan 9, 2025 · 4 min read · The GlobalScope is a kind of scope in the world of Kotlin coroutines that challenges a lot of developers and prompts many to say that it is not useful, and it was probably a bad idea to introduce it in the kotlix standard library any ways since the u...
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How does concurrency play a role in coroutines?
Jan 9, 2025 · 4 min read · If you are a bit familiar with coroutines, you probably have an idea already that coroutines are a mechanism that runs a set of instructions. Your probably also heard this term cooperative multitasking or non-preemptive multitasking. In broad terms, ...
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What is the Purpose of the Main Dispatcher?
Jan 9, 2025 · 5 min read · If you have this question, perhaps you are a long time server-side developer and are wondering what the Main Dispatcher is doing in the Kotlinx coroutines library? Well, the Main Dispatcher exists as kind of interface, but its implementation isn't re...
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Making Regression Tests with Kotlin and Micronaut
Jan 8, 2025 · 12 min read · My journey through Micronaut has been pretty amazing and using coroutines in the mix have given me quite a lot of experience in moving on to master these concepts. In this post, I'm going to show you how I created an all round integration test, that ...
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