Node.js Testing Strategies: Data Access Considerations

Welcome to Part 3 of this review of the Pluralsight course Node.js Testing Strategies by Rob Conery Rob has been working in the technology field full time since 1998 as a DBA and then a web developer. His original focus was the Microsoft ASP.NET stack, building tools like Subsonic and the first Micro-ORM: Massive. He co-founded…

Entity Framework 6.1 is over 100 times faster!

Recently I’ve been experiencing serious performance problems with Entity Framework. A query that was previously taking under a second to run was now taking over a minute to run. Taking the generated SQL and manually running it (either exactly or similar code) took 0.4 seconds to run. Adding some system.diagnostics stopwatches showed that that minute…