Class::ReluctantORM - An ORM Your DBA can Live With
Class::ReluctantORM - An ORM Your DBA can Live With
By Clinton Wolfe
Date: Monday, June 22, 2009 04:40 PM
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Intermediate
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Tags: dbas dbi grumpy orm reluctance scalability
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I've developed an ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) for use at my day job, OmniTI.com . We're often tasked with building scalable mod_perl web database applications on short schedules. I wanted to use an ORM to cut development time, having had good experiences with other ORMs. But ORMs have a nasty reputation as leading to database-intensive code that drives your DBA up a wall. After some discussion with our CEO, Theo Schlossnagle, I hit upon a design for an ORM that would be "reluctant" - it would resist making hidden calls to the database, and encourage you to prefetch everything. Several other features (not unique to Class::ReluctantORM) help make it idiot-resistant and DBA-friendly. It's now in use on several large, production sites, and is in its fourth minor version.
The Class::ReluctantORM namespace has been reserved on CPAN, but I haven't released it yet - the plan is to do so in mid-May, with the fifth minor version.
Attended by: Kenneth Graves (kag), Douglas Sims, Adam Prime (jsut), Erik Sturcke, Ilia Lobsanov, brian janaszek, Hari Ravella, Michael Graham (magog), Clinton Wolfe, Nick, Jeremy Stashewsky (stash), Joakim Lagerqvist, George Hartzell, Kurt Edmiston, Jess Robinson (castaway), Brad Lhotsky,
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