Re:Today’s Top Tech Skills
by jackschultz on Sunday November 24, 2019 @12:38PM
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Tons of replies to your comment already, but for point #1, this was absolutely the case for me. ActiveRecord is incredibly, incredibly good for pretty much all basic use cases. However, it comes with drawbacks like you said. It took me too long to realize I was behind on knowing sql to get to the next level.
To the point where I'm working today to fix slowness in a client's app where it relies way too heavily on the ORM and plain ruby code instead of going more in depth with sql.
Knowing sql more in further depth is the number one skill I'd want to tell backend devs to learn.
Also, I'm mainly a python guy, and if we're talking about ORMs, I will say that SQLAlchemy doesn't live up to ActiveRecord, to the point where I built my own db connection code for queries in some of the other flask / general python apps I'm working on.
To the point where I'm working today to fix slowness in a client's app where it relies way too heavily on the ORM and plain ruby code instead of going more in depth with sql.
Knowing sql more in further depth is the number one skill I'd want to tell backend devs to learn.
Also, I'm mainly a python guy, and if we're talking about ORMs, I will say that SQLAlchemy doesn't live up to ActiveRecord, to the point where I built my own db connection code for queries in some of the other flask / general python apps I'm working on.