A Look into Modern Leaky Abstractions - Postgres, MySQL, HTTP/2, TCP, ORMs GraphQL, N+1, Axios, git

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

English - April 17, 2021 06:00 - 37 minutes - 21.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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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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