Ecto Alternatives

ecto reviews and mentions

• Process-Based Concurrency: Why Beam and OTP Keep Being Right
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2026

  In that case, you send the error back to the caller.

  2) There is a network problem between your application and the database (might be temporary).

  You just let the process crash (local state is lost), the supervisor restarts it, the restarted process tries to connect back to the database (new local state). If it still fails it will crash again and the supervisor might decide to notify other parts of the application of the problem. If the network issue was temporary, the restart succeeds.

  Before crashing, you notified the caller that there was a problem and he should retry.

  Now, for the caller. You could start a transient process in a dynamic supervisor for every query. That would handle the retry mechanism. The "querier process" would quit only on success and send the result back as a message. When receiving an error, it would crash and then be restarted by the supervisor for the retry.

  There are plenty of other solutions, and in Elixir you have "ecto" that handles all of this for you. "ecto" is not an ORM, but rather a data-mapper: https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto

• Idempotent seeds in Elixir
  2 projects | dev.to | 14 Mar 2024

  To ruin the party, deterministic UUID generation is exactly what UUID v5 is designed for. And since Ecto does not validate UUIDs against their specs, you might as well use uuid again and do:

• Ecto: A toolkit for data mapping and language integrated query
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jul 2023
• Sketch of a Post-ORM
  14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2023

  To me this looks a lot like ecto https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto

  Is there a significant difference?

• Dependency inversion on Elixir using Ports and Adapters design pattern
  2 projects | dev.to | 10 Jan 2023

  Ecto database driver use-case

• Do I need to use Elixir from Go perspective?
  5 projects | /r/elixir | 9 Jan 2023

  When it comes to building microservices, Go has the advantage of being easier to deploy and tighter integration with gRPC. On the other hand, Elixir will provide a more expressive layer to communicate with the database through Ecto.

• Ask HN: Is my software stack choice sound?
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2022

  May I ask why CouchDB though? Is it for the offline support?

  Phoenix comes with its own database tool called Ecto[0] which is excellent, and it uses Postgres by default. If you're not intended to leverage CouchDB for offline support you should go Postgres without a second thought.

  That said, I'm also curious about how to implement offline support with Phoenix in a nice and trivial way.

  [0] https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto

• Do it to learn Elixir
  2 projects | dev.to | 15 Jun 2022

  The best would be to set aside at least 40 minutes of study a day. Being 20 minutes focused on the core of the language, solving problems and a website that can help you a lot and exercism. Another 20 minutes some of the core frameworks like: Phoenix, Ecto, Enum

• Using CQRS in a simple Phoenix API with Commanded
  7 projects | dev.to | 10 May 2022

  This is a testiment to the value and productivity of Phoenix, but the resulting code is just basic CRUD. The views are tied 1:1 with their database-backed Ecto schemas. One thing to note is that Phoenix generates DDD-style contexts. This is unlike Rails, which would produce a typical ActiveRecord sprawl: bloated models directly being accessed and lazily queried across the entire application.

• How to Use Macros in Elixir
  3 projects | dev.to | 2 Nov 2021

  Ecto uses prewalk to count the number of interpolations within a given expression.

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