Dapper vs Entity Framework
After two decades in software engineering, I’ve seen a fair number of ORMs come and go, and I’ve worked with everything from ADO.NET to Entity Framework. Lately, I’ve been spending …
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Approaching Performance Tuning Methodically
Performance tuning is usually focused on the database because many problems will manifest there, although some of the problems are not caused there. We will begin by analyzing the presentation …
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The Need for Performance Tuning in the Cloud Era
As software engineers who have experience with databases and application languages, we are often asked to troubleshoot difficult performance problems. Most of those problems present in the database, and in …