The Two Abstractions of System Design: Hide or Reduce

355 · Murat Demirbas · May 8, 2026, 11:38 p.m.
Summary
This blog post discusses the two types of abstraction in system design: modularity abstraction, which focuses on hiding internal details to simplify usage, and modeling abstraction, which aims to reduce a system to its essential behaviors for analysis. The author contrasts these approaches, emphasizing the importance of modeling abstraction for achieving effective concurrency and simpler reasoning about systems.