There's no doubt that Entity Framework with LINQ is great (I've certainly written enough articles about it). But Entity Framework comes at a cost. As Matthew Jones points out on his blog, using ...

Take advantage of the Dapper ORM’s support for asynchronous operations to bring fast data access to your ASP.NET Core applications Dapper is an open source, lightweight “micro ORM” that supports many ...

Take advantage of the async methods in Dapper to improve the scalability and performance of your ASP.NET Core applications. Dapper is an easy to use, lightweight, flexible, fast, and open source ...