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ALVARO VIDELA - @old_sound METAPHORS WE COMPUTE BY THE YEAR IS 1980 GEORGE LAKOFF & MARK JOHNSON METAPHORS WE LIVE BY METAPHOR ISNT JUST A MATTER OF POETRY AND RHETORICAL FLOURISH METAPHORS PERMEATE ALL AREAS OF OUR LIVES METAPHORS

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METAPHORS WE COMPUTE BY

ALVARO VIDELA - @old_sound

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THE YEAR IS 1980

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METAPHORS WE LIVE BY

GEORGE LAKOFF & MARK JOHNSON

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METAPHOR ISN’T JUST A MATTER OF POETRY AND RHETORICAL FLOURISH

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METAPHORS PERMEATE ALL AREAS OF OUR LIVES

METAPHORS DICTATE

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METAPHORS PERMEATE ALL AREAS OF OUR LIVES

METAPHORS DICTATE

▸ How we think

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METAPHORS PERMEATE ALL AREAS OF OUR LIVES

METAPHORS DICTATE

▸ How we think ▸ How we behave

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METAPHORS PERMEATE ALL AREAS OF OUR LIVES

METAPHORS DICTATE

▸ How we think ▸ How we behave ▸ How we perceive

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METAPHORS PERMEATE ALL AREAS OF OUR LIVES

METAPHORS DICTATE

▸ How we think ▸ How we behave ▸ How we perceive ▸ How our conceptual system is built

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ARGUMENT IS WAR

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METAPHORS IN EVERYDAY EXPRESSIONS

ARGUMENT IS WAR

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METAPHORS IN EVERYDAY EXPRESSIONS

ARGUMENT IS WAR

▸ Your claims are indefensible

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METAPHORS IN EVERYDAY EXPRESSIONS

ARGUMENT IS WAR

▸ Your claims are indefensible ▸ He attacked every weak point in my argument

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METAPHORS IN EVERYDAY EXPRESSIONS

ARGUMENT IS WAR

▸ Your claims are indefensible ▸ He attacked every weak point in my argument ▸ I demolished his argument

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METAPHORS IN EVERYDAY EXPRESSIONS

ARGUMENT IS WAR

▸ Your claims are indefensible ▸ He attacked every weak point in my argument ▸ I demolished his argument ▸ I never won an argument with him

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METAPHORS IN EVERYDAY EXPRESSIONS

ARGUMENT IS WAR

▸ Your claims are indefensible ▸ He attacked every weak point in my argument ▸ I demolished his argument ▸ I never won an argument with him ▸ His criticisms were right on target

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WHAT IF ARGUMENT IS A DANCE?

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I’M NOT CONVINCED

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LET’S TALK ABOUT POLITICS

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HOW METAPHORS SHAPE WOMEN'S LIVES

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http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170718-the-metaphors-that-shape-womens-lives

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I’M STILL NOT CONVINCED

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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

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PEOPLE ARE NOT RESOURCES

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TRIGGER WARNING

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GIVING A PLATFORM TO RACISTS

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“WRESTLING WITH INCLUSION AT XYZCONF”

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“WRESTLING WITH INCLUSION AT XYZCONF”

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LET’S TALK ABOUT COMPUTERS

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COMPUTERS

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METAPHORS ENABLE UNDERSTANDING

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JULIET IS LIKE THE SUN

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JULIET GAVE ME SKIN CANCER

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METAPHORICAL MAPPINGS PRESERVE THE THE COGNITIVE TOPOLOGY OF THE SOURCE DOMAIN

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IN A WAY CONSISTENT WITH THE INHERENT STRUCTURE OF THE TARGET DOMAIN

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METAPHORS TRANSFER INFORMATION FROM ONE CONCEPTUAL DOMAIN TO ANOTHER

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WHAT IS TRANSFERRED IS A PATTERN RATHER THAN DOMAIN SPECIFIC INFORMATION

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A METAPHOR CAN THUS BE USED TO IDENTIFY A STRUCTURE IN A DOMAIN THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED OTHERWISE

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https://www.quantamagazine.org/algorithm-solves-graph-isomorphism-in-record-time-20151214

GRAPH ISOMORPHISM

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THIS IS HOW METAPHORS CREATE NEW KNOWLEDGE

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METAPHORS OBSCURE UNDERSTANDING

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TELE-GRAPH

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“SOMETIMES OUR TOOLS DO WHAT WE TELL THEM TO. OTHER TIMES, WE ADAPT OURSELVES TO OUR TOOLS' REQUIREMENTS”

Nicholas Carr

THE SHALLOWS

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METAPHORS ARE THE TOOLS OF THOUGHT

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METAPHORS AND CODE

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BEST UNKNOWN PAPER

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“TO PROGRAM IS TO WRITE TO ANOTHER PROGRAMMER ABOUT OUR SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM”

What a Programmer Does

A PROGRAMER’S ROLE

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“NO ONE HAS SEEN A PROGRAM WHICH THE MACHINE COULD NOT COMPREHEND BUT WHICH HUMANS DID”

What a Programmer Does

A PROGRAMER’S ROLE

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TYPES ARE THE CHARACTERS THAT TELL THE STORY OF OUR PROGRAMS

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PROGRAMMING WITH ABSTRACT DATA TYPES

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WITHOUT TYPES WE JUST HAVE OPERATIONS ON STREAM OF BYTES

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CHOOSING THE RIGHT DATA STRUCTURE

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CHOOSE THE RIGHT DATA STRUCTURE

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CHOOSE THE RIGHT DATA STRUCTURE

▸ Array

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CHOOSE THE RIGHT DATA STRUCTURE

▸ Array ▸ Set

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CHOOSE THE RIGHT DATA STRUCTURE

▸ Array ▸ Set ▸ LinkedList

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CHOOSE THE RIGHT DATA STRUCTURE

▸ Array ▸ Set ▸ LinkedList ▸ Queue

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CHOOSE THE RIGHT DATA STRUCTURE

▸ Array ▸ Set ▸ LinkedList ▸ Queue ▸ Stack

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A PROGRAM’S EXPLANATORY POWER IS THE MEASURE OF ITS OWN ELEGANCE

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DATA STRUCTURES HAVE EXPLANATORY POWER

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COGNITIVE LEAPS

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TASK SCHEDULING

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QUEUEING THEORY

TASK SCHEDULING

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ROUTE PLANNING

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GRAPH THEORY

ROUTE PLANNING

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DATABASE REPLICATION

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RUMOUR MONGERING

DATABASE REPLICATION

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EPIDEMICS

DATABASE REPLICATION

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SO EVERYTHING IS A METAPHOR?

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I DON’T BELIEVE YOU

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Whenever nodes need to agree on a common value, we start a consensus algorithm to decide on a value. There's usually a leader process that takes care of making the final decision based on the votes it has received from its peers.

SEVEN METAPHORS

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS METAPHORS

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SEVEN METAPHORS

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS METAPHORS

Nodes communicate sending messages over a channel, which might get congested due to too much traffic. This could create an information bottleneck, with queues at each end of the channels backing up.

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FOUR METAPHORS

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS METAPHORS

These bottlenecks might render one

  • r more nodes unresponsive,

causing network partitions. Is the process that's taking too long to respond dead? We won't know unless we set a timeout…

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BUZZWORDS

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CONTAINERS

▸ Standard ▸ Ship Anywhere ▸ Train, Ships, Trucks ▸ Stackable ▸ Reusable

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MICROSERVICES

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MICROSERVICES

▸ Decentralised Governance ▸ Monolith vs. Microservice ▸ Isolation ▸ Collaboration ▸ Small is better - Big is cumbersome ▸ David vs. Goliath

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BRING POWER BACK TO THE DEVELOPER AND THE DEVELOPER WILL MAKE YOU A KING

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ERLANG ANYONE?

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“IN ANOTHER DIRECTION, ONE COULD ARGUE THAT MICROSERVICES ARE THE SAME THING AS THE ERLANG PROGRAMMING MODEL, BUT APPLIED TO AN ENTERPRISE APPLICATION CONTEXT”

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WHAT’S ERLANG’S ELEVATOR PITCH?

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MASTER THE ART OF METAPHOR SELECTION

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FIRST GET PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THINGS

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THEN EXPLAIN HOW THINGS ACTUALLY WORK

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RABBITMQ A JOB SERVER?

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MASTER THE ART OF MEANING AMPLIFICATION

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OUR PROGRAM IS THE METAPHOR FOR THE SOLUTION WE FOUND

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REFERENCES

▸ Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. “Metaphors We Live By” ▸ Gärdenfors, Peter. “The Geometry of Meaning” ▸ Gleick, James. “The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood” ▸ Geary, James. “I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and

How It Shapes the Way We See the World”

▸ Demers, Alan, Dan Greene, Carl Hauser, Wes Irish, and John

  • Larson. “Epidemic Algorithms for Replicated Database

Maintenance”

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CREDITS - CC BY-NC-ND

▸ Office Workers: https://flic.kr/p/5WwpeV ▸ Sun: https://flic.kr/p/9Q6SY1 ▸ Queue: https://flic.kr/p/8AqWW7 ▸ Consensus: https://flic.kr/p/aws7dH ▸ Bottlenecks: https://flic.kr/p/EJ5Q3 ▸ Gossip: https://flic.kr/p/4bCDr2 ▸ Containers: https://flic.kr/p/nWLQxE

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@old_sound

THANK YOU!