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Kent Beck

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Cloud Development Environments Tame Complexity By Reducing State

When I joined Gusto 3 and a half years ago I got to program production Ruby for the first time. I was excited to get started. Alex, a…

Oct 31, 2022

Oct 31, 2022

Tune Software Development for Rate of Change, not Rate of Progress

Folks seem to tune software development for a desired output rate. That’s a disaster. Here’s why, what to do instead, and (at the end) a…

Jun 16, 2022

Jun 16, 2022

Help Geeks Feel Safe In The World: My Personal Mission

Twenty five years into my career and I finally figured out my mission. This was after patterns, after xUnit, after TDD, after Extreme…

Jun 10, 2022

Jun 10, 2022

Hit ’em High, Hit ’em Low:

Regression Testing and the Saff Squeeze

Mar 28, 2022

Mar 28, 2022

Dimensions of Power

“Well I’m a senior engineer so we’ll do it my way.” I always hated conversations like that as a junior engineer but they seem to be a…

Mar 23, 2022

Dimensions of Power

Mar 23, 2022

The First Thing a Technical Speaker Needs

Let go of trying to be seen as better than I see myself

Mar 3, 2022

The First Thing a Technical Speaker Needs

Mar 3, 2022

How Will I Measure My Life?

Originally published February 2018

Feb 7, 2022

How Will I Measure My Life?

Feb 7, 2022

Work/Life Balance Should Be Difficult

“Why weren’t you more ambitious as an engineer?”

Dec 14, 2021

Stones precariously balanced

Dec 14, 2021

Background Work

A student had a code review where the reviewer said, “This variable needs to be explicitly initialized to nil.” The usual course for a…

Dec 8, 2021

Archaeologist working carefully

Dec 8, 2021

Accountability in Software Development

The following is lightly edited from the June 2014 version.

Dec 1, 2021

Wind blown trees

Dec 1, 2021

Kent Beck

Kent Beck

10.7K Followers

Kent is a long-time programmer who also sings, plays guitar, plays poker, and makes cheese. He works at Gusto, the small business people platform.

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