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Oh god, no! Please no!

Okay maybe it works for you, but I've worked on one of these systems for a financial engine with over 10m SQL LoC. This was a big product that was ~15 years old and used by dozens of companies having bespoke feature flags that changed significant parts of the calculation engine. Everyone except a couple grey beards who'd joined straight out of university left that place after a few years because of how insane it was to work on and we all became way too interested in good architecture design from that experience. My friends from that time who I still keep in touch with are almost entirely working on FP-based environments now.



When done poorly that is the result. And it is very easy to do poorly.

But I think the basic premise of combining functional and relational is valid. At the very least it avoids the object relational impedance mismatch.




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