[aaronmu]

I’ve implemented this.

TLDR: orm’s + large transactions resulted in a lot of unexpected complexity.

At some point you get really big transactions because one write triggers five process managers which all trigger more writes and so on and so on. Performance was not a problem but I was surprised by the complexity of these big transactions in combination with an orm.

I dont have a concrete example but over the course of two years we have encountered multiple bugs that took days to solve. Theres one of these bugs that we fixed without identifying the root cause until this day.

[theptip]

Thanks for the perspective -- given what you know now, would you have built it differently if you could do it over again? Or was it the right call for the stage of your system, even if there were pain points?