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Jun 2021
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Talking Kotlin #99 HTTP as a Function Wi...

Talking Kotlin
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In this episode, we talk to Ivan Sanchez and David Denton, the co-creators of the http4k framework, which provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services with Kotlin using a functional programming approach.  
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