Fail loudly, fail fast, fail in production
Is it just a fact of life that software is broken? Our industry often operates as if the answer is "yes." We write tests, we fix bugs, but we seem to accept a certain level of failure as the cost of doing business. Our guest today is tired of it. Isaac Van Doren is a software engineer at Paytient, a healthcare payment solutions provider, and he’s "sick of software being broken all the time". Isaac makes the provocative case for a radical cultural shift in how we approach software reliability. He argues that we need to move beyond the narrow view that reliability simply equals testing and instead adopt practices that force us to be explicit about the rules of our systems. Listen to explore a different philosophy of development—one where engineers are fully responsible for defining business logic , assertions are a tool for building a "theory of the system" , and failures in production are not just bugs, but immediate, unmissable signals that our understanding was wrong. This conversation will challenge your assumptions and give you a new vocabulary for building software that, as Isaac puts it, "actually works".