John Arundel

Hi, I’m John Arundel, programming mentor and author of various books on software engineering and tech careers. I’ve been writing software for about 40 years, and I think I’m starting to figure out how to do it.

I’ve trained developers and teams at Google, VMware, GitHub, HashiCorp, Pivotal, Gruntwork, Nginx, JPMorgan Chase, Facebook, Elastic, Grafana Labs, GoCardless, Cisco, Pythian, Intuit, and dozens of other successful companies (maybe yours, too).

Read on to find out more about my books, mentoring, and other offerings.

 
 

Books

For the Love of Go (Go 1.23 edition)
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““The best technical book I have ever read.””
— Josiah Ilesanmi
Monk Mode
$24.95
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““Inspiring and full of good ideas.””
— Ell McPhearson
The Secrets of Rust: Tools (early access edition)
$34.95
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““Gentle, funny, and full of clear explanations.””
— Flavio Balioni
 

Mentoring

Go mentoring
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““John is an amazing teacher.””
— Bukola Jimoh
Focus & growth mentoring
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““Incredibly supportive.””
— Nina Rives
Rust mentoring
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““Absolutely great to work with.””
— Leo Rubiano
 

Posts

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Why you can't meditate
Why you can't meditate

You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special cushion. But you can start to gently train your brain to stop craving distraction and overstimulation. In this excerpt from Monk Mode, we'll see how.

Suite smells: undertesting and overtesting
Suite smells: undertesting and overtesting

Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests too optimistic (assuming the code already works), or too persnickety (testing the irrelevant)?

Rust and Go vs everything else
Rust and Go vs everything else

Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages make perfect partners.