Scott and Wes chat with Alex Blokh and Andrew Sherman, the co-founders of Drizzle ORM, about building a modern ORM from the ground up. They dive into the importance of type safety, creating filters with Drizzle, and the differences between Drizzle and other ORMs like Prisma.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
  • Syntax × Drizzle Swag.
• 01:15 What is Drizzle?
• 02:36 The genesis of Drizzle.
• 04:15 The process of building an ORM.
• 05:38 ‘100% Type-Safe’ and why that’s not a great goal.
• 07:50 Who is responsible for writing the complicated TypeScript?
• 09:40 Is an ORM necessary for anyone working with data?
• 12:15 Creating a product that fits different complexities.
• 13:19 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
• 13:44 Creating filters in Drizzle. Callback-based, or imported. Why?
• 19:22 Drizzle vs Prisma vs Kysely.
• 22:45 Are you friendly with Prisma?
• 23:35 Relational queries.
• 25:17 Query vs select.
• 27:42 Maintaining so many different technologies.
• 30:37 Switching databases.
• 31:39 Drizzle Studio.
  • Drizzle Studio Syntax Theme.
• 35:00 Accessing Cloudflare D1 SQLite requires connection through a worker.
• 37:40 Drizzle Kit.
• 41:37 Will you ever support MongoDB?
• 42:10 Supporting PGlite and local data storage landscape.
  • DrizzleORM v0.30.6 release notes.
• 44:00 Being a developer in Ukraine in 2024.
  • How to support Ukraine: Savelife, United24.
• 51:07 Drizzle is expanding.
• 53:50 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.

Sick Picks

Andrew - Smart Swim Goggles.

Shameless Plugs

Andrew - Savelife, United24. Scott - Syntax × Drizzle Swag.

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