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159: GraphQL with Tanmai Gopal

Programming Throwdown

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The Problem With ORMs

The question really is, so you have a front-end application, right? And your bank app needs to do a transaction or whatever. Why can't the bank app talk to the bank's database directly? Right?Why can't it just speak in SQL? That's who he is to do. So, why not just do that? Then we have an API, it speaks in HTTP and JSON, and then this API thing's used in ORM,. And then that ORM then speaks to a database, like the ORM is like a translation layer. But why do we have these layers in the middle? If, is it worth having these levels in the middle rather than just

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