Database Transactions & Concurrency: EF Core Production Patterns
Transaction isolation levels, optimistic locking with RowVersion, DbUpdateConcurrencyException handling, and deadlock prevention in EF Core.
EF Core
Insights tagged with EF Core
EF Core Performance Mistakes That Ship to Production
The N+1 queries, missing projections, and tracking overhead that pass code review and slow down production systems.
EF Core Vector Search: Semantic Search Without a Separate Database
EF Core 10 adds native vector search with SqlVector and VECTOR_DISTANCE. Store embeddings alongside relational data and query by semantic similarity.
Performance Defaults That Beat Clever Optimizations
The boring baseline that makes content sites fast: OutputCache policies, EF Core query shaping, compression, and stable indexing.