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Hi, I'm Navkrishna — I write about Android, backend development with Kotlin & Spring Boot, and hands-on IoT projects.
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Migrating a Spring Boot Service from Java to Kotlin — A Practical Guide
A step-by-step guide to migrating a Spring Boot application from Java to Kotlin — migration order, build setup, interop gotchas, JPA concerns, and testing with MockK.
Spring Boot 4 + MongoDB — Aggregations, Schema Evolution & Repository Patterns
Build a Spring Boot 4 application with MongoDB — document modeling in Kotlin, Spring Data repositories, MongoTemplate queries, aggregation pipelines, and schema evolution strategies.
Android Project Setup in 2026 — Version Catalogs, KSP, Compose & CI
Set up a modern Android project with Kotlin 2.x, Compose, KSP, version catalogs, convention plugins, and GitHub Actions CI — a complete 2026 baseline.
Popular Series
CQRS with Spring Boot, Kafka & MongoDB
A 5-part deep dive into building a CQRS architecture — from concepts to production-ready Docker Compose setup.
JSON Parsing in Java
Parse the same complex JSON with org.json, Gson, Moshi, and Jackson — then compare them side by side.
JSON Parsing in Kotlin
The Kotlin edition — org.json, Gson, Moshi, Kotlin Serialization, and Jackson with a full comparison.