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spyke112 on June 28, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is ORM still an anti-pattern?

Definitely! The problem though, is that this issue creeps up on you over time, and maybe only i production, because the performance is directly correlated to the amount of data in the database.

But I guess issues like these are what transition you from junior developer into whatever comes next.

theshrike79 on June 28, 2023 [–]

Exactly, nobody bothers checking what kind of queries the ORM produces. The stuff works on dev (with 1% of the data prod has) and they get merged.

Then it goes to production and everything grounds to a halt because some bit in there fetches a 100M row table that was 10k rows in dev.

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