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 really nice 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
