If the hardest part of software development is coming up with good names, then the second hardest part is finding good levels of abstraction. This talk will lay the groundwork for identifying what areas of your application should be more abstract, which should be more concrete, and why it even matters. We will work through a real-world identifying useful and useless abstractions along the way. By the end of this talk you’ll be able to answer this the tricky question: “How much abstraction is enough?”.

This talk will lay the groundwork for identifying what areas of your application should be more abstract, which should be more concrete, and why it even matters. We will work through a real-world identifying useful and useless abstractions along the way.

Example application in .NET
Beginner Level Session
Previous Sessions: KCDC 2017