A collection of 9 posts
Part of software development is researching new tools and finding ways to integrate them with what you know and love. Given today’s technology landscape, having multiple products power your solution in new and exciting ways is not uncommon. While your...
Most relational databases are a modern marvel, with many features waiting for you to use. However, for .NET developers, you often need to discover methods to get data into and out of our database instances that work for our use...
The efforts to containerize all the things are underway, with many tech vendors pushing remote development as a viable development option. So in the future, some percentage of your development stack will be remote-capable, which means more command-line familiarity is...
I’ve grown fond of SQLite during my time as a developer advocate. The file-based database with native drivers for every operating system allows me to ship self-contained data-driven sample apps to developers worldwide. Developers can clone a demo and run...
Working with databases is a fun yet challenging task. As our application’s mature, we see opportunities to optimize our codebase along with query performance. Views are a great way to achieve both goals. With Entity Framework Core 5 (EF Core),...
In the whirlwind of new technologies whizzing by us continuously, it is sobering to remember that most of a developer’s role is to get data from one location to another. In the case of HTTP APIs, the response we return...
Object Relational Mappers (ORMs) are great tools for abstracting our database choice away and allowing us to get things done. As time goes on and our applications evolve, we realize the underlying database can get things done faster and more...
In many applications, the mutation of data starts with the user, flows through the application logic, and effects the underlying data store. In caching scenarios, we can see the flow of data reversed. Our data is updated by database administrators...
It’s not very often, but there are times when a stored procedure just works a little better than LINQ. Complexity for developers can be decreased while performance can be dramatically increased for users. In those very rare cases, it may...
