IT'S TIME TO RAISE YOUR STANDARDS

Why Should I Care About Testing Mastery?

It probably feels like something is missing...

Picture this: you’ve just landed your first freelance contract job.

Or maybe, you’ve just become the sole developer at a small company.

You’re stoked that you’ve been able to land this gig, but for some reason, you feel kinda nervous.

Why? You’ve built stuff before.

You know what you’re doing.

Of course.

But this time it feels different. Why?

Because even though you know how to use Next.js…

Even if you know a backend framework…

Hell, even if you know how to use a lot of the Domain-Driven Design techniques I’m a huge fan of…

It’s different. 

With great power comes great responsibility.

And you’ve got some responsibilities now.

The pressure is on, my friend.

If you've been able to get this far, you've probably had the experiences to recognize writing which works once is a LOT different from writing code that allows you to sleep soundly at night.

I've been there myself. It absolutely sucks leaving your machine wondering:

"Did I do this right"?

"Will this work?"

"Was there something I missed?"

So if it feels like something is missing, that’s because something is missing.

You need to learn the skill that "every single successful company uses".

And that skill is testing.

THE INSTRUCTOR

Who Is This Guy?

JUST SOMEONE OBSESSED WITH FIGURING OUT HOW TO BE A GREAT DEV

I’ve been obsessed with finding the answer to question of “how to write scalable, testable code” ever since 2017.

It was born out of frustration, actually.

I followed the traditional path.

I graduated with a 5 computer science bachelors degree and a diploma in networking engineering.

I worked in terrible codebases at consultancies & launched my first startup (which took longer & longer to add features to) — only to realize that there was little that 5 years of university taught me which could prepare me for the real world.

It was a free-for-all.

I realized formal education had completely failed me.

Eventually, I said enough is enough and decided to take matters into my own hands.

I chose to figure out what it really takes to get good at consistently solving problems and writing great code.

I didn't care how long it'd take me either.

I just had to know.

Hey, I’m Khalil

I turn developers into confident crafters developers who can go on to land jobs, clients, contracts, and start their own software companies (all without having to buy, read & digest hundreds of complex programming books).

Over the last 6-7 years as an educator and an ex-developer advocate at Apollo GraphQL, I’ve been following my curiosity — coding, blogging, studying many topics from software design, psychology, neuroscience, human-computer interaction, philosophy & reading every single one of the classic programming books from over the last 40 years — all while seeking advice from their original authors, on Twitter.

Over that time, here’s what I’ve been focused on:

1. growing a Discord community of developers who want to master their craft and build inspiring careers

2. helping new devs get up to speed on the world of software design, architecture & testing in solidbook.io

3. coaching developers 1-on-1 in The Software Essentialist Mentorship Training

4. and in 2023, we launched the initial early adopter version of The Software Essentialist based on the mentorship training

My philosophy is Value Creation. It's what I'm most passionate about.

My vision for essentialist.dev is to create the best place on the planet for developers to ramp up on what really matters — and do it fast.

I'm helping developers become Value Creators themselves, in everything they do, without having to spend as much time as I did.

And while I believe that Mastery is key, it’s not the goal. 

It's merely the first step toward what you authentically want to create — in your career, for your family, for your life.

That’s what I’m all about, personally.

COMPLETE THE APPRENTICESHIP

How will testing help me?

The many benefits of testing mastery

One of the first things we teach in The Software Essentialist is that there are only 4 things that actually really matter.

They are The 4 Pillars: Testing, Architecture, Design & Strategy.

And the thing is... basically no one is teaching them, and very few developers consciously practice them.

Why?

Well, traditionally, they've been extremely difficult to learn and apply.

(Have you ever picked up a book on Design Patterns just to study? Not all that useful, right?)

We do things differently here.

We focus on how to master testing from first principles using the philosophy of Software Essentialism.

Because testing is the one skill that developers completing our program gain the ability to:

• do great work, consistently
• get recommended, and re-recommended for jobs by clients
• start their own companies
• focus the majority of their time on new features instead of bugs
• reduce bugs by up to 80%
• produce high quality code using tests to guide their designs
• embed tests within a Deployment Pipeline and dramatically improve the way they deliver software
• sleep soundly at night knowing they have a suite of tests keeping their code (or their clients' code) humming along peacefully

THE CURRICULUM

What Will I Learn?

You’ll learn this in ~2-4 weeks.

What’s included in the course?

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