
8 min
A New Kind of Abstraction
Developers often look at abstractions as being ""the closer to the metal, the better,"" meaning that as abstractions become further removed from the lowest possible level, the more you give up in terms of performance and features. But abstractions work as a spectrum also. We'll look at how we can adjust our view of abstractions and what kind of examples we can use to better understand that abstractions have less to do with programming and more to do with where we deploy.