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Konstantin Pavlov

I am the Software Engineer.

And this is my blog about software development.

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Code-Review Best Practices

Code review is a crucial practice in software development. One can design and write a great software, but we are humans after all. And all humans make mistakes, so another pair of eyes is always helpful.

The review process might seem straightforward, but there are useful tips to make it less painful is some cases.

Running Testcontainers On Dynamic Ports

Running integration tests locally with Docker on fixed ports is not always possible due to port conflicts. This is especially true when running tests in shared CI environment with shared workers.

Fortunately, testcontainers allow to start Docker containers listening on a random port.

Kotlin Playground Shortcode for Hugo

Kotlin Playground is HTML component which creates Kotlin-aware editors capable of running code from HTML block elements. Here I explain how to embed runnable Kotlin code block in your Hugo-powered blog.

Spring Boot Configuration Best Practices

Spring Boot comes with very neat configuration mechanism. Default application configuration is defined in one configuration file and environment specific setting in separate files. But still, this mechanism is often not used properly resulting in verbose and unmaintainable configurations.