Turning an ORM into a Platform - Spiros Martzoukos
Channel: GreeceJS
Date: 10/05/2022

Presented by Spiros Martzoukos, senior product manager for Prisma, at the 41st GreeceJS meetup on the 11th of November 2021.

Prisma is well-known as an ORM but for the past few quarters the team has been building a data platform around their flagship product in order to enable better developer workflows around the Data Layer and runtime enhancements for production applications. This fundamental product change led to a huge cultural and operational shift for the company, which up to that point had been focused on building an open source tool.

In this talk Spiros (a) spoke about the reasons and the reasoning process behind this move, (b) presented the new architectural stack, (c) described what went well and what not and finally (d) analyzed the organizational changes that Prisma had to undergo and the lessons they learned through this process.