ORM your ORM with Zach Howard

In this talk we'll present the inconveniences of working directly with objects returned by an ORM. We'll discuss:

• the issues of having database sessions attached to objects;
• the ability to maintain independence and flexibility around different storage solutions;
• and we will also talk about the general question of how to decide which object layer you should base your application logic on.

This talk is inspired by a real-world use case, and we'll present the before and after states of implementing our current (production) solution: a database-agnostic data service API that promotes immutable objects for any module to consume.