BP265: Profile your application, especially the data access layer
When developing applications using .NET Core and C#, it is important to profile your application, especially the data access layer. Profiling is the process of analyzing the performance of your application to identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement. By profiling your application, you can identify slow queries, inefficient code, and other performance issues that can impact the user experience.
Profiling your application can help you optimize your code and improve the performance of your application. By identifying performance bottlenecks, you can make targeted improvements to your code to improve the overall performance of your application. For example, you may identify a slow query that is causing a page to load slowly. By optimizing the query or adding an index to the database, you can improve the performance of the page and provide a better user experience.
There are many tools available for profiling .NET Core applications, including Visual Studio, JetBrains dotTrace, and MiniProfiler. These tools allow you to analyze the performance of your application in real-time, identify performance bottlenecks, and drill down into the code to identify the root cause of the issue. By using these tools, you can quickly identify performance issues and make targeted improvements to your code to improve the overall performance of your application.