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Kotlin Coroutine Confidence: Untangle Your Async, Ship Safety at Speed

Kotlin Coroutine Confidence: Untangle Your Async, Ship Safety at Speed

Escape callback hell and ship code that reads as smoothly as it runs. Squash bugs and stamp out memory leaks with an intuitive concurrency toolkit.

2025

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Short Circuits, Bottom Types and the Vacuous Boomerang

The surprisingly useful explanation behind Kotlin’s funniest program

Feb 5, 2023

Short Circuits, Bottom Types and the Vacuous Boomerang

Feb 5, 2023

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The Silent Killer That’s Crashing Your Coroutines

There’s only one safe way to deal with cancellation exceptions in Kotlin, and it’s not to re-throw them

Feb 20, 2023

The Silent Killer That’s Crashing Your Coroutines

Feb 20, 2023

Does Your Kotlin Async Cache Leak User Data Between Coroutines?

Don’t let shared computations turn into shared errors and cancellations

May 2

Does Your Kotlin Async Cache Leak User Data Between Coroutines?

May 2

Suspending Kotlin Beyond Coroutines

Get creative with continuations for recursion, serialization, sequences, and more

Apr 24

Suspending Kotlin Beyond Coroutines

Apr 24

Kotlin Coroutine Cancellation, Explained

Safely stop suspending tasks for faster apps and fewer bugs

Apr 17

Kotlin Coroutine Cancellation, Explained

Apr 17

Call Suspending Kotlin Code from Java

Five ways to connect new coroutines with old codebases

Apr 10

Call Suspending Kotlin Code from Java

Apr 10

Custom Kotlin Coroutine Races

Find the fastest, then change the rules to filter out nulls or pick your own winner

Apr 3

Custom Kotlin Coroutine Races

Apr 3

This Code Runs in Both Kotlin and Java

One file, two languages, no syntax errors

Mar 28

This Code Runs in Both Kotlin and Java

Mar 28

Fire and Forget with Kotlin Coroutines

Call a suspending function without waiting for it to finish

Mar 26

Fire and Forget with Kotlin Coroutines

Mar 26

Six Ways to Start a Coroutine in Kotlin, Ranked

Choose the right coroutine scope for safety and simplicity

Mar 20

Six Ways to Start a Coroutine in Kotlin, Ranked

Mar 20

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Author of Kotlin Coroutine Confidence: https://pragprog.com/titles/sckotlin

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