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Re:Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millio... by duggan on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @06:25PM (#4071296)
Personally, one of my favourite discussions is Laurie Voss' "ORM is an anti-pattern": http://seldo.com/weblog/2011/08/11/orm_is_an_antipattern
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Re:Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millio... by notJim on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @12:38AM (#4072445)
The key criticism in that article seems to be "ORMs are imperfect abstractions for SQL." Who the hell cares? This is the real world. We don't need perfect abstractions.
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Re:Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millio... by dools on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @11:11PM (#4072209)
Which, really, should be "ActiveRecord is an anti-pattern"
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