Leaky abstractions occur when the consumer of the abstraction started asking questions about certain behavior which ends up with the need to understand the details behind the abstraction. Joel Spolsky coined this term and in this video I’d like to discuss this concept and provide few examples of my own experience towards leaky abstractions. Let us get on with the show.
6:00 Postgres Dead Tuples
7:25 MySQL Clustering
9:23 Axios HTTP Library
11:30 ORMs (N+1)
13:30 Beyond Abstractions
15:30 TCP
19:30 HTTP/2
27:00 Microservices
28:40 Index Only Scans Postgres
33:35 git
34:50 Summary
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