"Speaker: Christine Spang Database ORMs make it really convenient to pythonically query a database, but it's difficult to decide when to use them and when not to---and what the alternatives are. In this talk you'll learn strategies for deciding when and where to use an ORM, when to be cautious, and how to tell that you're doing the right thing, drawn from real-world lessons learned building the Inbox email platform. Slides can be found at: https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2015 and https://github.com/PyCon/2015-slides"