In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the benefits and potential drawbacks of using an ORM on your next project, as well as what some of the popular ORMs are.
Show Notes 00:10 Welcome
00:39 Dental cleanings
03:00 What’s an ORM?
05:51 Benefits of using an ORM
12:54 Validation in ORM
19:18 What about Types?
23:44 Popular ORMs
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Jul 22
1023: Mosh, Caddy & Tailscale: A Remote Dev Deep Dive
Running your dev process off your main machine doesn’t have to mean the cloud. Scott and Wes break down how to host projects on a box you can reach from any device, close your laptop mid-build, and keep long-running processes alive. They cover Scott’s stack (Mosh, Caddy, Tailscal ... Show More
48m 46s
Jul 20
1022: Bun re-written in Rust, Zig team big mad
CJ and Scott break down the biggest week in web dev: TypeScript 7 ships with a 10x-faster native port, Bun gets rewritten in Rust (much to the Zig team’s dismay), and Better Auth joins Vercel. Plus GPT-5.6 first impressions, Odin 1.0, Cloudflare’s new Workers cache and drag-and-d ... Show More
1h 15m
Jul 15
1021: We got addicted to an AI model we can't talk about
Dax Raad, co-founder of OpenCode, joins Scott and Wes to talk remote dev servers, OpenCode 2.0, and why his team is “addicted” to AI models they’re not even allowed to name yet. Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:43 Welcome to Syntax! 01:22 Remote Development Environments and Their Benefi ... Show More
51m 7s
Feb 2017
Episode 028 - JavaScript Universi-LongIslandIce-ty
We’ve all started somewhere. JavaScript isn’t always an easy language to learn. In this episode, we’re joined by Gordon Zhu, who teaches workshops on JavaScript at Watch and Code. We are also joined by Luis Vargas, a Senior Manager on Global Payments at Netflix who has recently b ... Show More
53m 34s
Jan 2024
Episode 159 - Select * Wastes Money
Guy and Eitan discuss various practices in SQL Server that hurt performance and possibly waste money, negative VarDecimal numbers, renumbering Identity columns, and the new Azure Database Fleet Manager. Relevant links: SQL Server IN Clause With Multiple Literal Values Performance ... Show More
37m 55s
<p>In this episode of the backend engineering show, I’ll discuss the low code movements and their pros and cons.</p>
<p>0:00 Intro</p>
<p>2:00 Evolution of Languages</p>
<p>8:40 Low Code Movement</p>
<p>10:00 Side Effect of Low Code</p>
<p>13:00 Leaky Abstractions</p>
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