Andrew Ek
Once ate two pizzas on a dare, and only regretted it a little bit
Andrew Ek is the co-founder of Arid Software, where he writes line-of-business applications using Elixir, Ruby, and Javascript (among others). Before becoming a software developer, he taught English, Math, and Computer Science. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA with his wife and daughter and two orange cats.
Talk:
Get Your CRUD Together!
Most web applications, at their heart, are CRUD (Create / Read / Update / Destroy) applications wrapped around a database with some business logic mixed in. In a Ruby on Rails application, for instance, ActiveRecord provides us with a pre-built set of functions for working with our records. In Phoenix applications, we have Ecto, but it’s much less opinionated, and developers are left to their own devices. In this talk we present some opinions on how to organize these operations using Boundaries, Repos, and Queries.
Talk objectives:
- Discuss limitations of “default” approach (a context + relying on the base application repo + lots of Ecto)
- Propose an alternate approach with a dedicated Repo (abstracting Ecto), Queries, and a Boundary
- Show how this approach can also work to provide a consistent enough interface with external services (e.g. a REST API).
Target audience:
- This talk will be most useful to developers who have enough experience with CRUD applications that they have run across some of the pain points I discuss.