Were I writing this as an article for a newspaper, the subhead would be “Design Patterns Don’t Cause Application Slowness.” The point of this piece isn’t to defend Active Record per se; it’s to discuss the fact that design patterns aren’t to blame for your application’s problems, and more to the point, design patterns aren’t the problem.
This discussion stems from a discussion with a friend of mine who swore up and down that Active Record was a terrible design pattern that was inefficient, poorly designed, and ill-suited for use by developers. As a PHP developer, it’s easy to embrace this call, especially since it’s always fun to trash Ruby on Rails folks; however, I’m not willing to take the position that design patterns are the cause of performance problems.
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 @ 9:00 am |
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Categories: Best Practices, System Architecture, Object-Oriented Development, Technology
Tags: Best Practices, design patterns, ActiveRecord