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Spicing up your app’s performance - a simple recipe for GC tuning

The garbage collector is a complex piece of machinery that can be difficult to tune. Not surprisingly, many developers dread touching the GC. If you don’t give the GC just a little bit of care, your whole application might be running suboptimal. This blog post shows how we got two production applications to perform better by following simple tuning steps.

Spicing up your app’s performance - a simple recipe for GC tuning

Coroutine Gotchas - Bridging the Gap between Coroutine and Non-Coroutine Worlds

Coroutines are a wonderful way of writing asynchronous, non-blocking code in Kotlin. Think of them as lightweight threads, because that’s exactly what they are. Lightweight threads aim to reduce context switching, a relatively expensive operation. Moreover, you can easily suspend and cancel them anytime. Sounds great, right?

Coroutine Gotchas - Bridging the Gap between Coroutine and Non-Coroutine Worlds