Working in technology at Vanguard -- a large enterprise in the highly regulated financial sector -- Robbie and Christina are no strangers to enabling developers at a broad scale and accelerating DevOps teams. Whether you call it a wrapper, an adapter, a platform, or something else, home-grown abstraction layers have found their way into almost everything that they do. These patterns bring with them the challenges of support and maintenance, both for the software itself and its documentation. In exchange, they provide the benefit of reduced re-work and the simplicity of standardization for consumers.

In this talk, the speakers will share stories of successes and lessons learned with abstraction layers, exploring which ones were worth it, and which ones they wish they had approached differently. As an audience member, you'll walk away with a better understanding of how to evaluate the costs and benefits of introducing abstraction in your own enterprises.