It's Abstractions All the Way Down... - posit::conf(2023)

Presented by JD Long Abstractions rule everything around us. JD Long talks about abstractions from the board room to the silicon. Over 20 years ago Joel Spolsky famously wrote, "All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky." Unsurprisingly this has not changed. However, we have introduced more and more layers of abstraction into our workflows: Virtual Machines, AWS services, WASM, Docker, R, Python, data frames, and on and on. But then on top of the computational abstractions we have people abstractions: managers, colleagues, executives, stakeholders, etc. JD's presentation will be a wild romp through the mental models of abstractions and discuss how we, as technical analytical types, can gain skill in traversing abstractions and dealing with leaks. Materials: https://github.com/CerebralMastication/Presentations/tree/master/2023_posit-conf Presented at Posit Conference, between Sept 19-20 2023, Learn more at posit.co/conference. -------------------------- Talk Track: It's abstractions all the way down .... Session Code: KEY-1161