Abstraction is considered a virtue in software development. However, practice shows that wrong abstractions cause more harm ...

Modern enterprises are drowning in tools, platforms and frameworks. Every year, we add another layer—a new cloud service, data stack or platform that promises to simplify everything—yet somehow the ...

Software abstractions and metaphors are extensively used software development. For example, in the database arts, programmers use structural and functional abstractions such tables, fields, record, ...