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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…

3 min readOct 31, 2022

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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…

3 min readJun 16, 2022

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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…

3 min readJun 10, 2022

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Hit ’em High, Hit ’em Low:

Regression Testing and the Saff Squeeze

5 min readMar 28, 2022

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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…

6 min readMar 23, 2022

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The First Thing a Technical Speaker Needs

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

3 min readMar 3, 2022

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How Will I Measure My Life?

Originally published February 2018

4 min readFeb 7, 2022

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How Will I Measure My Life?

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Work/Life Balance Should Be Difficult

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

2 min readDec 14, 2021

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Stones precariously balanced

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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…

2 min readDec 8, 2021

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Archaeologist working carefully

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Accountability in Software Development

The following is lightly edited from the June 2014 version.

7 min readDec 1, 2021

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Kent Beck

Kent Beck

10.5K 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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