Ethos

Objective

An easy-to-implement O/RM framework that eschews "low-code" approach in favour of strong contracts, without foregoing the value-add functionality of larger O/RMs.

Goals

• Empower strongly agreed contracts between business and data layer
• The storage structures should not have to define the business entity structure
• Utilise stored procedures as the primary database interaction
• Enable decoupling of the database using well-defined contracts
• Easy to determine the behaviour from the code (no "magic")
• Succinct and deterministic contracts
• Flexible to changing surface shape, without compromising other goals
• Expose details of contract drift from reality

Anti-goals

• Low-code point-and-understand, enabling indeterminate results
• Lax handling of requests/responses, allowing for unplanned contract drift