Resources

We have an extensive list of community-maintained articles, blogs, and videos to get you up to speed with Ballerina.

This list is curated to recognize the efforts made by our community and encourage anyone to contribute towards Ballerina content.

Featured articles

Data Manipulation with Functional Programming and Queries in Ballerina

By Yehonathan Sharvit

11 Aug 2022

How MOSIP Uses Ballerina WebSubHub for Event-Driven Integration

By Dakshitha Ratnayake

28 June 2022

Ballerina for Full-Stack Developers: a Guide to Creating Backend APIs

By Imesha Sudasingha

14 March 2022

Articles

Using GraphQL and Ballerina with Multiple Data Sources

By Anupama Pathirage

1 July 2022

How MOSIP Uses Ballerina WebSubHub for Event-Driven Integration

By Dakshitha Ratnayake

28 June 2022

Ballerina: A Data-Oriented Programming Language

By Yehonathan Sharvit

10 May 2022

Why Should You Program with Ballerina?

By Vishva Ahangama

21 April 2022

Ballerina for Full-Stack Developers: A Guide to Creating Backend APIs

By Imesha Sudasingha

14 March 2022

How to use Ballerina Local Repository

By Pramodya Mendis

10 Dec 2021

Real-Time Stock Data Updates with WebSockets Using Ballerina

By Anupama Pathirage

23 Nov 2021

Deploying Ballerina Code on the Cloud

By Sumudu Nissanka

18 Nov 2021

Proper OpenAPI Documentation for Ballerina Resource APIs

By Sumudu Nissanka

17 Nov 2021

Concurrency-Safe Execution Using Ballerina Isolation

By Hinduja Balasubramaniyam

7 Nov 2021

Using Binding Patterns in Ballerina

By Suleka Helmini

20 Oct 2021

Binding Patterns in Ballerina

By Suleka Helmini

19 Oct 2021

gRPC Compression Support in Go, Java, and Ballerina

By Buddhi Kothalawala

13 Oct 2021

How to Configure, Customize, and use Ballerina Logs

By Madhuka Wickramapala

9 Oct 2021

Event-Driven APIs with Webhook and WebSub

By Anupama Pathirage

21 Sep 2021

Quickstart OpenAPI with Ballerina

By Anupama Pathirage

16 Sep 2021

Ballerina Swan Lake: 10 Compelling Language Characteristics for Cloud Native Programming

By Dakshitha Ratnayake

15 Sep 2021

gRPC: A Deep Dive into the Communication Pattern

By Danesh Kuruppu

31 Aug 2021

Featured blog posts

Ballerina WebSocket Service — The Anatomy

By Bhashinee Nirmali

24 May 2022

Intuitive REST APIs and JSON Handling With Ballerina Programming Language

By Dakshitha Ratnayake

5 May 2022

Why Ballerina is a language

By James Clark

4 May 2022

Blog posts

Ballerina WebSocket Service — The Anatomy

By Bhashinee Nirmali

24 May 2022

Intuitive REST APIs and JSON Handling with Ballerina Programming Language

By Dakshitha Ratnayake

5 May 2022

Why Ballerina is a Language

By James Clark

4 May 2022

A Practical Guide for Language Server Protocol

By Malintha Ranasinghe

11 Dec 2021

Real-Time Stock Data Updates with WebSockets Using Ballerina

By Anupama Pathirage

27 Nov 2021

Event-Driven APIs with Webhook and WebSub

By Anupama Pathirage

8 Nov 2021

Connecting to and Using Google’s Cloud SQL with Ballerina

By Kaneel Dias

21 Oct 2021

Immutability in Ballerina — Part I

By Maryam Ziyad

26 Sep 2021

Uncovering Interesting 2020 Olympics Stats with Ballerina Language-integrated Queries

By Imesha Sudasingha

17 Sep 2021

Overview of Manipulating Data in Ballerina with Different APIs

By Dulaj Dilshan

7 Sep 2021

Introduction to OpenAPI with Ballerina

By Anupama Pathirage

4 Sep 2021

Introduction to gRPC on Ballerina

By Anupama Pathirage

28 Aug 2021

Get started with Service Testing Using Ballerina Test Framework

By Fathima Dilhasha

17 Aug 2021

Unit Test Ballerina Integration with Mock Backends

By Aquib Zulfikar

17 Aug 2021

Microservices Security with Ballerina

By Chanaka Lakmal

3 Aug 2021

Go Real-Time with Ballerina WebSockets

By Bhashinee Nirmali

28 July 2021

Make your Own Ballerina Client Connector Using the Ballerina OpenAPI Tool

By Sumudu Nissanka

23 July 2021

REST is History, Let’s Do GraphQL (with Ballerina)

By Thisaru Guruge

29 June 2021

Single Liner Payload Read…

By Chamil Elladeniya

6 June 2021

Ballerina: Integration Programming Language

By Ayesh Almeida

9 May 2021

How Ballerina OpenAPI Tool Addresses your Code-First and Design-First API Approaches

By Sumudu Nissanka

4 April 2021

A Practical Guide to Ballerina Remote Debugging

By Praveen Nadarajah

31 March 2021

Ballerina Shell REPL — Implementation Overview

By Sunera Avinash

1 March 2021

Ballerina Concurrency Model and Non-Blocking I/O

By Anjana Fernando

23 Feb 2021

Introduction to GraphQL with Ballerina

By Anjana Fernando

10 Feb 2021

HTTP Deep-Dive with Ballerina: Services

By Anjana Fernando

29 Jan 2021

[Ballerina] Working with JSON — JSON to Record Conversion

By Maryam Ziyad

27 Jan 2021

Super Cool Feature for your Ballerina Service from Ballerina OpenAPI Tool

By Sumudu Nissanka

7 Nov 2020

Practical Serverless: Long-Running Workflows with Human Interactions Using Step Functions and Ballerina

By Anjana Fernando

28 Sep 2020

Practical Serverless: Integrating Amazon S3 and Rekognition with Ballerina

By Anjana Fernando

31 Aug 2020

Practical Serverless: A Scalable OCR Solution in 10 Minutes

By Anjana Fernando

3 Aug 2020

Introduction to Azure Functions in Ballerina

By Anjana Fernando

23 July 2020

Redesigning of Ballerina Cache

By Chanaka Lakmal

27 June 2020

Authenticate a Shopify App Using OAuth — The Ballerina Way

By Thisaru Guruge

3 June 2020

Featured videos & podcasts

Simplifying Cloud Native Application Development with Ballerina

By Eric Newcomer and Darryl Taft

8 June 2022

Data-oriented Programming with Ballerina

James Clark Interviewed by Yehonathan Sharvit

27 April 2022

Why should you start programming with Ballerina?

By Sanjiva Weerawarana

2 March 2022

Videos & podcasts

Simplifying Cloud Native Application Development with Ballerina

Eric Newcomer and Darryl Taft

8 June 2022

Data-oriented Programming with Ballerina

James Clark Interviewed by Yehonathan Sharvit

27 April 2022

Why should you start programming with Ballerina?

By Sanjiva Weerawarana

2 March 2022

Ballerina Swan Lake: The Open Source Cloud Native Programming Language Revamped

By Imesha Sudasingha

15 Dec 2021

How Ballerina Handles Network Interaction, Data, and Concurrency

By James Clark & Charles Humble

11 Nov 2021

Ballerina Type System

By James Clark

26 Oct 2021

Creating a Service in Ballerina - Tutorial

By Manuranga Perera

1 June 2021

Familiar Subset - Ballerina Language, Swan Lake (Part 1)

By James Clark

31 May 2021

Network and Data - Ballerina Language Swan Lake: Part 2a

By James Clark

31 May 2021

Query, Tables, and XML - Ballerina Language Swan Lake: Part 2b

By James Clark

31 May 2021

Concurrency - Ballerina Language Swan Lake: Part 2c

By James Clark

31 May 2021

Completing the Picture - Ballerina Language Swan Lake: Part 3

By James Clark

31 May 2021

Other resources

Language introduction slides

A high-level overview of the Ballerina language

Ballerina type system slides

An introduction to the type system of the Ballerina language

1 June 2021

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In the creation of Ballerina, we were inspired by many technologies. Thank you to all that have come before us (and forgive us if we missed one): Java, Go, C, C++, D, Rust, Haskell, Kotlin, Dart, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Perl, Flow, Swift, Elm, RelaxNG, NPM, Crates, Maven, Gradle, Kubernetes, Docker, Envoy, Markdown, GitHub, and WSO2.