Driver: Add page about Kotlin

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What the title says.

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https://cratedb-guide--423.org.readthedocs.build/connect/kotlin/

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• docs/connect/kotlin/index.md

Walkthrough

Adds a new Kotlin driver page and examples (JDBC, Gradle Kotlin DSL) and updates the Connect index to include a Kotlin driver card and toctree entry. All edits are documentation-only; no runtime code or public APIs were changed.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Connect index update docs/connect/index.md	Adds a Kotlin driver card to the "Drivers by language" grid (logo, link, alt text, styling classes) and inserts kotlin/index into the toctree.
New Kotlin guide docs/connect/kotlin/index.md	Adds a Kotlin/JDBC guide covering driver options (Postgres JDBC, CrateDB JDBC), a Kotlin JDBC example, build.gradle.kts snippet (plugins, dependencies, Java toolchain, application launcher), CrateDB Cloud sslmode example, and run notes.

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Estimated code review effort

🎯 3 (Moderate) | ⏱️ ~20 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• Drivers: Fix broken links. Improve wording. #338 — Modifies docs/connect/index.md drivers grid and related references.
• Driver: Add page about Erlang #420 — Adds a language driver card and toctree entry in docs/connect/index.md (analogous insertion).
• Driver: Add page about Rust #407 — Adds a language driver page and updates the connect index (same docs area).

Suggested labels

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Suggested reviewers

• seut
• matriv

Poem

🐰 I nibble docs beneath the sun,
A Kotlin card — a tasty one,
JDBC carrots, Gradle cheer,
I hop through pages, bright and near,
Hooray for docs — a rabbit's run!

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the main change: adding a new Kotlin driver documentation page to the connect section.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is related to the changeset, mentioning the addition of a Kotlin page with a preview link, though minimal in detail.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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• Commit unit tests in branch kotlin

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[kneth]

Let's discuss https://github.com/crate/tech-content/issues/124#issuecomment-3485676563 before merging

[amotl]

I think it's nice to have a dedicated page about Kotlin, so that all downstream entities (humans and machines) can easily learn how to connect to CrateDB using the PostgreSQL interface, and use a ready-to-run example to exercise it right away.

In the long run, this will also improve network effects, because CrateDB gains a dedicated representation within the corresponding search- and vectorspaces.

Currently, relevant search keywords like cratedb kotlin will not yield concise results, but this will improve a few days after merging this patch.

[matriv]

thx!

[matriv]

thx!