Potential Pitfalls of Over-Reliance on SQLAlchemy

Using SQLAlchemy, a widely-used SQL toolkit and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) system in Python, may not always be the best choice for all scenarios. Although powerful and effective for creating UI-focused services, SQLAlchemy might lead to undesirable outcomes when used for backend services requiring modularity, high performance, and maintainability. In such cases, over-reliance on SQLAlchemy can contradict fundamental object-oriented principles, resulting in poorly structured code.

Personally, i use SQLAlchemy very sparingly and usually prefer thinner libraries based exclusively on raw SQL.

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Comments

[david wyatt]

Nice write up, thanks you. Just an FYI you can import whole blog and then add it as a conical url