Co-founder of Stack Overflow

Joel Spolsky

Spolsky's essays named the leaky abstraction and argued that understanding the layer below is never optional for long.

Essential reading: Joel on Software
“The Law of Leaky Abstractions”
Models in this guide: 1

No. 018Systems & Structure
Law of Leaky Abstractions
All non-trivial abstractions leak; eventually you have to understand what is beneath them.