30 Days of EF Core That Actually Scales

Learn how to scale your EF Core applications effectively over 30 days

This series explores the 30 Days of EF Core That Actually Scales, which provides practical guidance and best practices for building scalable applications using Entity Framework Core. Each day focuses on a specific aspect of EF Core, offering insights and techniques to improve performance and maintainability.

EF Core vs. Dapper: A Pragmatic Guide for Production Systems

DbContext Pooling in ASP.NET Core: Boost Performance Safely

Why Lazy Loading is a Performance Trap in ASP.NET Core

Code-First vs. Database-First—Which to Choose?

Why EF Core AutoInclude is a Performance Trap

Safely Log EF Core SQL Queries in Production

Fix Slow EF Core Queries with Database Indexing

5 EF Core Defaults to Change Before Production

How to Find and Fix N+1 Queries in EF Core

Fix Slow EF Core Queries with Projections

EF Core: LINQ vs. Raw SQL - A Surprising Benchmark

Stop Using Skip/Take for EF Core Pagination

5 EF Core Patterns for Faster ASP.NET Core APIs

EF Core: One-to-One vs. One-to-Many (A Painful Lesson)

Stop Leaking Data: Soft Deletes with EF Core Global Filters

EF Core Owned Types: When to Use Them in SQL Server

TL;DR: My EF Core Entity Modeling Checklist

EF Core Tenant Isolation: Global Query Filters for Secure Multi-Tenant SaaS

Connection Per Tenant in EF Core: Design & Pitfalls for SQL Server

Handling Transactions in EF Core: SaveChanges vs Explicit Transactions

EF Core Concurrency Tokens: Preventing Lost Updates in SQL Server

RowVersion and Timestamps in EF Core: Practical Guide for SQL Server

Managing EF Core Migrations in Large Teams: Best Practices for SQL Server

Zero-Downtime Migrations in EF Core: Blue-Green and Rolling Deployment Strategies

EF Core Compiled Queries: When They’re Worth It in High-Throughput Apps

SQL Server Execution Plans: What EF Core Developers Should Actually Look At

Stored Procedures vs EF Core LINQ: When to Drop Down to SQL

Table Splitting in EF Core: When to Use It (and Why It Hurts Sometimes)

Inheritance Mapping in EF Core: TPH vs TPT vs TPC in SQL Server

Unit Testing with EF Core: How to Avoid the In-Memory Provider Trap