Tag: sqlalchemy

• An ORM can bite you (15 May 2022)
  Object Relational Mappers (ORMs) are widely used in software development to abstract a database operations in our application code by providing a layer between object-oriented programming language and relational tables in a database. However we should be conscious that simple and inconspicuous expressions provided by our ORM can lead to heavy actions underhood. To present it I will take SQLAlchemy, one of the most popular ORM in Python world.
• Value Object persistance strategies (04 Mar 2022)
  Value objects are one of tactical building blocks for modeling business domain introduced and popularized by Domain Driven Design approach. However, we can exploit value objects even if we do not tackling complex domain problem.
• Persistance and domain model separation using SQLAlchemy ORM (28 Nov 2021)
  You probably have heard about a test pyramid. It is the idea that tan application should have proper balance of automated tests on different layers. There should be a lot of unit tests, significantly less integration tests and a few UI tests (End2End, functional). The reasons for this are maintenence cost and speed of particular test type. Unit tests are usually fast and isolated from the rest of the code (so are easy to setup and maintain).