David WickesA great video was brought to my attention on Twitter recently. It's a lightning talk by @CristinGorman that she gave at JavaZone in 2011.
The title is
Hibernate should be to programmers what cake mixes are to bakers: beneath their dignity.
which is pretty punchy.
Hibernate, for those of you lucky enough to never have used it, is a 'library' for interacting with relational databases in Java.
It reminded me of my own rant
Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework
David Wickes ・ Jul 26 '18
And I wish I'd seen it a long time ago. The cake mix metaphor is outstanding - it expresses exactly what I've been trying to say about frameworks. But better, because it's baking.
Something to chew on...
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