Talking Kotlin #100 Kotlin at DoorDash

Matt Anger, Senior Staff Engineer at DoorDash, walks us through how they have embraced Kotlin on Android, their server-side backend services, migrating away from their previous monolithic implementation, and going all in with Kotlin as DoorDash’s language of choice.

Learn more about how DoorDash uses Kotlin: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2020/12/doordash-building-scalable-backend-services-with-kotlin/

Read the story of DoorDash’s migration from Python to Kotlin for their backend: https://doordash.engineering/2021/05/04/migrating-from-python-to-kotlin-for-our-backend-

services/

Using Structured Concurrency to Write Maintainable gRPC Endpoints in Kotlin - https://doordash.engineering/2022/07/26/functional-core-imperative-shell-using-structured-concurrency-to-write-maintainable-grpc-endpoints-in-kotlin/