Two Types of Abstraction in System Design: Modularity vs. Modeling

The article distinguishes between two types of abstraction in system design: modularity abstraction (hiding internals through encapsulation) and modeling abstraction (reducing systems to minimal behavioral representations for analysis). It highlights examples from distributed systems like Paxos, logical clocks, and log-based databases to illustrate how these abstractions serve different purposes in system design and verification.

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