Category Archives: Software Design

Object-Relational Mappings Considered Harmful

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Håvard

Creating an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) has become the de facto way of handling persistence in the object-oriented programming paradigm. Almost all systems require some form of persistent state, and relational databases have become the de facto place to put that … Continue reading →

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Five advices on implementing a cache

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Håvard

I’ve spent the last few days at work implementing a cache in the data access layer (DAL) of one of our services. The cache works great, and speeds up our service very much in some cases, and somewhat in all … Continue reading →

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