WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Nov 12, 2020

Slip Through the Boundaries of Legacy Systems with Kotlin and Spring WebFlux

Lukas Georgieff, Alberto Gisbert

Are legacy architectures choking your high-throughput services? Migrating to Kotlin and Spring WebFlux solves thread exhaustion. Learn to master reactive streams without triggering silent operational failures.

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