Great write-up. If I could nitpick a bit I would say... I am on the fence with ORMs. Yes, they make 80% of cases possible, remaining 19% difficult and last 1%

Great write-up. If I could nitpick a bit I would say... I am on the fence with ORMs. Yes, they make 80% of cases possible, remaining 19% difficult and last 1% sometime impossible. Having Slick (Scala) and JOOQ (Java) makes code much more transparent, explicit and easy to maintain. Debugging nasty stateful session bugs (oh JPA) can be nightmare.