I worked at a Java shop where they built their own "ORM." I use that term loosely. I showed up there about 4 years after this decision and was amazed by the WTF

I worked at a Java shop where they built their own "ORM." I use that term loosely. I showed up there about 4 years after this decision and was amazed by the WTFs I saw. Example: They weren't using prepared statements. Instead, they had some half baked escaping system that would occasionally trigger syntax errors in production.