Jan 17, 2019 What Could Go Wrong? The Subtle Science Of Coding for Failure
This will be the alpha version of my RubyConf AU 2019 talk.
Software development is the anticipation of a thousand dangers: regressions, edge-cases, exceptions, attacks, downtime, the list is endless. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, we’ll build a simple model for quantifying danger, explore why the human brain is so bad at it, and examine some practical applications for our development processes. There will be at least one science.