Busy Developer's Guide to Ballerina
summary
Ballerina is a service-first language with built-in HTTP endpoints, JSON types and a one-to-one textual and graphical syntax so APIs are first-class. It runs on the JVM (Java 11), offers strands (lightweight execution units) and compiler-enforced isolated resources to prevent concurrency bugs. Tooling generates OpenAPI, produces a Docker image from source, and you can try it at play.ballerina.io. Example: a working tic‑tac‑toe HTTP server using an OpenAPI contract and H2 persistence, compiled and run as a Docker container.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to Ballerina
- 1:07Why Ballerina exists
- 9:58Service-oriented design
- 17:49Setting up Ballerina
- 22:29Hello World in Ballerina
- 31:22Building an HTTP API
- 37:25Tic-Tac-Toe service demo
- 48:11Persistence and FFI
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