Nat Bennett

Some have called them a software engineer. They've worked on Cloud Foundry and a few other large systems. They're also a writer, photographer, and speaker.

Throw away your prototypes

Design prototypes tend to be the product of one person. Production code needs to be the product of a team.

Read the Code

The code always tells the truth.

How to get acquired (without losing your mind)

If you, too, are a deeply anxious and conscientious person and you are staring down this newest acquisition and freaking out about it, I have some advice.

Tests need to be faster than you probably think

Serious TDD practitioners and teachers tend to consider tests "slow" if they take longer than 15 seconds. Ideally they're faster than that, if you're going to run them on every code change.

Test first, design second

We always figured out how we were going to test things before, or while, we designed them.

DevOps for Application Developers

Unfortunately, Númenor has drowned, so you're probably going to have to learn about something called Kubernetes.