What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]

Re:What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video] by ci5er on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @11:54AM (#12598683)

In the absence of a good reason not to use Python (and there are many case where one should not), I use it quite a bit myself. And usually (absent good reason) I use it with PostresQL. SQLAlchemy is a wonderful thing.

Granted, I am neither a database nor ORM savant, but I find that it makes explicit almost as easy as implicit - but with more safety! I haven't seen that elsewhere, but I haven't looked very hard either. I have heard claims that Groovy/Hibernate do this just as well as well, but it isn't clear to me that this is completely true.

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Re:What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video] by _asummers on Thursday September 29, 2016 @09:36AM (#12605087)

You should check out what the Elixir folks are doing with Ecto. I'm a huge fan so far!

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Re:What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video] by ci5er on Thursday September 29, 2016 @10:09AM (#12605313)

Thanks for the pointer. I'm already using BEAM in a project, so that wouldn't be a bridge too far for that one...

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Re:What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video] by _asummers on Thursday September 29, 2016 @10:22AM (#12605411)

Conceptually, everything is a Schema and then you generate Changesets for DB operations like insert, update, etc. and apply various validations and transformations as a chain of function calls on the input map. No such thing as a model anymore. It fits really nicely with a data > functions mindset.

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Re:What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video] by ci5er on Thursday September 29, 2016 @10:36AM (#12605537)

> It fits really nicely with a data > functions mindset.

That will probably confuse my procedural mind, much like declarative "stuff" often does! :-)

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