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If there’s one thing I can’t stand in the development process it’s writing code to save data.  In fact, there are only a few things which I’d consider more useless than dealing with data persistence- one of them being data migration.  I hate dealing with persistence because it’s totally mundane and repetitive code.  Worse, nobody outside of IT really understands the details of persistence.  Which means it has no business value.  And why should users care about unit of work or active record vs. repository?   Should saving an object really be that complicated of a task? Absolutely not.  Which is why no one cares.  It’s like caring about how your beer was delivered.  Really, I just want to drink the damn beer.  Yet somehow the thing which should be a no brainer takes the most time and effort to do.  And causes the most debate.  And causes the most problems.  However, I recently got my first glimmer of hope- a cloud with a silver lining- that maybe, just maybe, someday, we’ll actually have simple data access.

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