SportsStore: Scaling Up

Abstract

When you create an application, the focus is usually on getting the right foundation, and that’s the approach I have taken with the SportsStore project. As the application progresses, it can be useful to increase the amount of data you are working with so that you can see the impact it has on the operations that the user has to perform and the amount of time they take. In this chapter, I add test data to the database to show the flaws in the way that SportsStore presents data to the user and address these by adding support for paginating, ordering, and searching data. I also show you how to improve the performance of these operations by using the Entity Framework Core that supports advanced data model configuration options, known as the Fluent API.