ORMs and ERDs, OMG!

Talk by Abe Kazemzadeh https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/orms-and-erds-omg This session aims to cut through the acronyms and introduce beginning developers to the concepts of object relational mappers (ORMs) and entity relationship diagrams (ERDs).  ORMs are programming tools that aim to bridge the gap between objects in programming languages and how relational databases store data in a normalized table format.  ERDs aim to visualize the structure of databases and can also create SQL code from a visual format.  Seeing these tools together helps make both click and can help developers leverage each for different use cases.