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Nathan Ladd

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Conference speaker, co-principal of the Eventide project (toolkit for event sourcing and autonomous services), co-maintainer with Scott Bellware. Twitter: @realntl. Self-taught programmer from Alaska who started with QBasic, began his career writing Linux device drivers in C, and came to web development around 2008–2009. Started working with Scott Bellware in 2015; together they built Test Bench (first release 2016-03-31). Gave 'An Introduction to Test Bench' at wroclove.rb 2023 and co-panelled the Event-Driven Rails discussion panel there the same day. Builds the Neuron product at Brightworks.

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co-principal, Eventide project
origin
Alaska, USA
twitter
@realntl
person Nathan Ladd
attended
wroclove.rb 2018 event
Attended as a speaker.
person Nathan Ladd
attended
wroclove.rb 2023 event
Presented 'An Introduction to Test Bench'.
person Nathan Ladd
authored
Enterprise Rails Panel talk
Panelist representing Eventide.
person Nathan Ladd
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Event Sourcing Anti Patterns and Failures talk
Nathan Ladd presented the talk as a co-principal of Eventide.
person Nathan Ladd
authored
An Introduction to Test Bench talk
Delivered the talk at wroclove.rb 2023.
person Nathan Ladd
authored
Event-Driven Rails Discussion Panel talk
Panelist representing Eventide; also gave the Test Bench talk earlier the same day.
role: panelist
person Nathan Ladd
has_skill
Event Sourcing concept
Co-principal of Eventide.
level: expert
person Nathan Ladd
recommends
Silver Bullet Anti-Pattern takeaway
Repeatedly warns against relying on tools to solve distributed-systems problems.
person Nathan Ladd
recommends
Stop Building Web Apps, Build Software takeaway
Urges Ruby community to move beyond web-request/response fixation.
person Nathan Ladd
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Events as Stem Cells takeaway
Frames events as the most reusable form of data in enterprise information architecture.
person Nathan Ladd
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Test Driven Development concept
Advocates TDD as a process/philosophy for improving implementation quality.
person Nathan Ladd
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Useful Objects concept
Credits Useful Objects for reshaping the economics of encapsulation during the V1 rewrite.
person Nathan Ladd
related_to
Scott Bellware person
Working together since 2015; Bellware mentored Ladd on TDD and design principles.
since: 2015
concept Rails Testing Pyramid (Ivan's version)
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Nathan Ladd person
Ivan credits Nathan Ladd with the 'deep vs wide' testing model shared in conversation at the conference.
person Nathan Ladd
uses
minitest tool
Devoted minitest user before Test Bench; preferred its simpler should-style semantics over RSpec's expect syntax.
person Nathan Ladd
works_at
Brightworks company
Works with Scott at Brightworks on Neuron and Eventide.
person Nathan Ladd
works_on
TestBench tool
Author of Test Bench; drove initial implementation and V1 rewrite.
role: author
person Nathan Ladd
works_on
Eventide project
Co-principal of Eventide with Scott Bellware.
role: co-principal
person Nathan Ladd
works_on
MessageDB tool
Co-principal of the Eventide project, which ships MessageDB.
role: co-maintainer

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