routing/specifying-a-routes-model/">Specifying a Route's Model</a>
guide.</p>
<p>At first, using Ember Data may feel different than the way you're used
to writing JavaScript applications. Many developers are familiar with
using Ajax to fetch raw JSON data from an endpoint, which may appear
easy at first. Over time, however, complexity leaks out into your
application code, making it hard to maintain.</p>
<p>With Ember Data, managing models as your application grows becomes both
simpler <em>and</em> easier.</