Peering Behind the Browser

I just found out that my abstract for AjaxWorld 2008 in San Jose has been accepted. I will be speaking on Tuesday, October 22nd at 9:20 about object-relational mapppers (ORMs) and the database. The talk is titled It’s 11 p.m., do you know where your queries are?:

Object-relational mappers such as Hibernate, LINQ, and Rail’s ActiveRecord can greatly simplify creating database-backed web applications. These tools do such a good job of abstracting the database, that is possible to create very complex web applications without ever considering the database at all!. Unfortunately, ignorance is not always bliss. When naively programmed, seemingly trivial application code can cause inefficient queries at best, and scalability and concurrency nightmares at worst. This talk will show that while ORM’s provide tremendous power and speed, it is still very important to know what is going underneath the comfortable abstraction layer the ORM provides. Examples will include identifying client-side joins, concurrency problems, and scalability issues.