Stories about Ecto quickly redeeming itself, and of what it takes to introduce foreign keys.

Some of us are super comfortable referencing the ID. Lars dislikes that Ecto needs to be more complicated because of SQL, but the abstractions do hold.

Also: the biggest reason to ever use a ORM! It can be reallynice to come back to one after a tour of plain SQL-land.

Some people have just been bitten so hard by cowboys.

Links

• Ecto
• Foreign keys
• RethinkDB
• Referential integrity
• AXA
• Lantmännen
• ModelForm in Django
• Cowboy and Plug
• DSL
• Upserts
• Fragments
• Haxl - DSL for creating queries
• SQLAlchemy
• ets