Going the micro-ORM way with Dapper

If you're a developer you've most certainly used stackoverflow (or any other of the stackexchange sites). It's the reference Q&A site out there and has got tons of helpful content and a really enthusiastic community.

One of my favorite things about Stackoverflow is that it's damn fast. The interface, although minimalistic, shows lots of information, refreshes everything on-the-fly and just feels snappy. It's public knowledge that Stackoverflow developers are obsessed with performance, and fortunately they've been more than happy to share their secrets with the community through some blog posts and videos.

To achieve the results you see today they've used many clever tricks and tweaks, but have also developed some in-house tools to overcome the performance limitations of existing technologies. In this post I'm going to look at their own ORM: Dapper, which is widely used in Stackoverflow and has been open-sourced on Github (link).