Blog

Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.

Series

Pagination, Filtering and Sorting: Returning Large Lists Efficiently

We cover returning a list with thousands of records efficiently: pagination, filtering, and sorting; the lazy nature of IQueryable, the Skip/Take logic, and running the query in the database.

15 Aug 2026 13 min 21

Backend PART 09

Introduction to Entity Framework Core: DbContext and Your First Migration

We start storing our data in a real database. What EF Core is, what DbContext represents, how tables are defined with DbSet, and how the database is created with the first migration, step by step.

2 Aug 2026 13 min 79