This chapter covers
- Understanding four different approaches to performance-tuning EF Core queries
- Comparing the different performance gains each approach provides
- Extracting the good practices from each approach to use in your applications
- Evaluating the skills and development effort needed to implement each approach
- Understanding what database scalability is and how to improve it
Chapter 14 provided lots of information on how to performance-tune an application. In this chapter and part of chapter 16, you are going to see how quickly you can make the part 3 Book App display books. This information will expose you to various ways to performance-tune an EF Core application; each approach involves a balance between better performance and extra development time. By learning a range of approaches, you’ll be ready to decide what you need in your own applications.
You will apply different performance-tuning approaches that progressively increase the speed of the Book App while taking more and more development effort to achieve these performance gains. Although the specific performance code in the Book App may not apply to your application, each of the performance changes uses a different methodology, so you can adapt the approach that works for you.