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Async/await is a common feature in many languages (naming might vary), that allows you to execute functions asynchronously while waiting for…

Following on from my previous post, Cancelling coroutines, we will look at how cancelling a coroutine affects its children. First let’s…

Not including the annotation and specifying the correct packages in your Spring Data Neo4j application can cause the following error: Yes…

Spring data does a lot to help you focus on writing your cypher queries while it handles mapping the results for you. However, when your…

Kotlin functions and constructors can define default arguments, allowing calls to them to skip any argument that has a default value. This…

Savepoints allow you to create markers within a transaction which you can rollback to, without preventing the transaction from being…

Sooner or later, you will need to cancel a coroutine that you started. Let’s look at how you can do just that. How to cancel a job One of…

Coroutines allow you to execute tasks asynchronously without blocking the calling thread, such as the main thread. Great, but sometimes you…

Coroutines are essentially lightweight threads that allow your applications to squeeze more juice out of the machines they are running on…

In this post, we will look at writing static functions in Kotlin that treat Java callers as first-class citizens. Recap There are three ways…