Category Advanced Techniques

There is one problem that every developer eventually experiences, even if the application is small. Everything works perfectly during testing, but once multiple users start using the system at the same time, strange things begin to happen. Someone updates a…

One pattern that shows up almost everywhere in real systems is soft delete. At first it looks trivial. Just add a column called IsDeleted and set it to true when someone deletes a record. But after working on several production…

When I first encountered Entity Framework Core interceptors, I honestly did not pay much attention to them. At that time, I was busy solving more visible problems like wrong data, slow queries, or strange bugs in production. Interceptors sounded like…

When I first encountered shadow properties in Entity Framework Core, I honestly did not understand why I would ever need them. I was already comfortable adding fields directly into my entities. If I needed CreatedAt or UpdatedBy, I just added…

When I first started working seriously with Entity Framework Core, I treated it very simply. A string is a string, an int is an int, a DateTime is a DateTime. Life was easy. Then real business requirements arrived. Not tutorial…