Layers
Are we building the right abstraction layers? And how would we know? To answer these questions, Kyle Anderson looks at the past, present, and future of the abstraction layers we've built as an industry.
| Talk Title | Layers |
| Speakers | Kyle Anderson (Yelp) |
| Conference | O’Reilly Velocity Conference |
| Conf Tag | Building and maintaining complex distributed systems |
| Location | San Jose, California |
| Date | June 11-13, 2019 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
| Video | |
As an industry, we have a long history of building abstraction layers upon which we build great things. But sometimes they get in the way. Kyle Anderson surveys some of the biggest abstraction layers we’ve built, analyzing how they might have gotten in our way and looking at some attempts to squash them. Then he turns to Kubernetes, Mesos, containers, VMS, and functions to evaluate how those abstraction layers fit into the bigger picture and how they might be squashed in the future. Join in to better understand how what you build fits into the bigger picture, with a gentle reminder that not to build abstraction for abstraction’s sake.
