My case against analogies in tech is that they are abused at places where people want to avoid giving an actual explanation of how things really work. Some anal

My case against analogies in tech is that they are abused at places where people want to avoid giving an actual explanation of how things really work. Some analogy + "read the code" is usually orders of magnitude less efficient than some wiki page with a couple of diagrams. If you want new team members to translate into dollars quickly, write things down.