{"id":2508,"date":"2023-02-07T20:57:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2023-02-07T20:57:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:57:25","slug":"abstraction-is-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/07\/abstraction-is-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstraction is Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;At companies with huge engineering forces, abstraction management is what a lot of them spend their time on. Often, these engineers are actually the most \u201cproductive\u201d in terms of money saved &#8211; infrastructure projects tend to result in 8-9 figure savings or unique capabilities, and performance engineering (another form of abstraction alignment) frequently has 8 figure returns per engineer. Another large group of engineers is in charge of making sure that the old abstractions don\u2019t break and crash the entire system.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, this is where startups can develop technical advantages on big tech despite having much smaller engineering teams, and where bootstrapped companies can out-engineer series-D companies. Given the freedom to align your abstractions to your goals, amazing things are possible.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/specbranch.com\/posts\/expensive-abstraction\/\">https:\/\/specbranch.com\/posts\/expensive-abstraction\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;At companies with huge engineering forces, abstraction management is what a lot of them spend their time on. Often, these engineers are actually the most \u201cproductive\u201d in terms of money saved &#8211; infrastructure projects tend to result in 8-9 figure savings or unique capabilities, and performance engineering (another form of abstraction alignment) frequently has 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}