How Ballast Powers Vesper’s Kotlin Multiplatform Architecture
As mentioned in the Series Introduction, Ballast is a foundational piece of the architecture of the Vesper app. Ballast is the architecture of the frontend application, and it is the Kotlin-language interface to the server-side schedules and background queue workloads. An understanding of Ballast and the problems it was designed to solve are crucial for understanding why I built Vesper in the way I did.
This post is part of a series on the Vesper Design Diaries, building a Production-Grade KMP App on a Bootstrap Budget. See the Series Introduction for context on the Vesper app and this blog series.
Full disclosure before anything else: I wrote Ballast. I've been building it for several years, and Vesper is the most complete application I've built with it. Take my recommendation with appropriate skepticism — I'm clearly not a neutral party. That said, Vesper is the real test of whether my...
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