NDC London 2027 - JOIN "My Session" ON Modern = 'SQL'
Discover modern SQL’s expressive power - CTEs, LATERAL joins, window functions, aggregation, temporal tables, JSON, and vector operations—through practical, elegant patterns for …
Giorgi Dalakishvili
Backend Engineer & Software Architect · 3x Microsoft MVP · International Speaker
I’m a backend engineer and software architect with 17+ years of .NET, mostly in banking and fintech: payment and transaction processing, public APIs, and the internal platforms other teams build on. I’ve led teams and a platform unit, and I stay hands-on in the code, increasingly through AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex.
Alongside that, I build open-source .NET libraries and developer tools with 44M+ NuGet downloads: DuckDB.NET, EntityFramework.Exceptions, EFCore.Visualizer and others. That work sits where .NET meets the database: native interop, Native AOT extensions for DuckDB and PostgreSQL, and tooling that makes query plans easier to debug. I also speak about .NET and databases at conferences like NDC, KCDC and .NET Conf.
Build Stuff 2026 - JOIN "My Session" ON Modern = 'SQL'
Discover modern SQL’s expressive power - CTEs, LATERAL joins, window functions, aggregation, temporal tables, JSON, and vector operations—through practical, elegant patterns for …
Update Conference Prague 2026 - JOIN "My Session" ON Modern = 'SQL'
Discover modern SQL’s expressive power - CTEs, LATERAL joins, window functions, aggregation, temporal tables, JSON, and vector operations—through practical, elegant patterns for …
DuckDB.NET 1.5.6.1: Appending Dates Up to 27× Faster
DuckDB.NET 1.5.6.1 appends DateTime values up to 27 times faster and cuts allocations from 2.8 GB to 93 KB. Part 2: dates, nullables, enums and strings.
DuckDB.NET 1.5.6.1: Reading Data Up to 12× Faster
DuckDB.NET 1.5.6.1 is up to 26 times faster on the same DuckDB 1.5.6 engine. Part 1: how sealing, fast paths and less boxing make reads up to 12 times faster.
Running Multiple Claude Code Accounts with herdr
How I run work and personal Claude Code accounts side by side in herdr using CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, and stop session restore from using the wrong account.
FabCon Europe 2026 - Supercharged Search with Semantic Search and Vector Embeddings
Semantic search or search based on the meaning analyzes the context and intent behind the query term to provide relevant results. Using Vector embeddings, the data structure behind …
Voxxed Days Luxembourg 2026 - JOIN "My Session" ON Modern = 'SQL'
Discover modern SQL’s expressive power - CTEs, LATERAL joins, window functions, aggregation, temporal tables, JSON, and vector operations—through practical, elegant patterns for …
DuckDB.NET 1.5.0: Simplified Scalar Functions, Table Functions, and NULL Handling
DuckDB.NET 1.5.0 introduces a high-level API for scalar and table user-defined functions, named parameter support for table functions, and explicit NULL handling for scalar UDFs.
DuckDB.NET 1.5.0 Performance: Up to 40% Faster Writes and 22% Fewer Allocations
DuckDB.NET 1.5.0 brings significant performance improvements across the board. Benchmarks show 40% faster appender writes, 22% fewer allocations, and 20% faster general reads …
NDC London 2026 - Postgres and OpenAI - a match made in Azure
PostgreSQL on Azure is evolving beyond a traditional relational database—it’s now a platform where advanced AI meets robust data management.
.NET Developer Days 2025 Warsaw - Supercharged Search with Semantic Search and Vector Embeddings
Semantic search or search based on the meaning analyzes the context and intent behind the query term to provide relevant results. Using Vector embeddings, the data structure behind …
NDC Copenhagen Developers Festival 2025 - Supercharged Search with Semantic Search and Vector Embeddings
Semantic search or search based on the meaning analyzes the context and intent behind the query term to provide relevant results. Using Vector embeddings, the data structure behind …
.NET Day Switzerland 2025 - Supercharged Search with Semantic Search and Vector Embeddings
Semantic search or search based on the meaning analyzes the context and intent behind the query term to provide relevant results. Using Vector embeddings, the data structure behind …
Update Conference Krakow - Beyond Relational with Entity Framework
Entity Framework Core is great for performing crud operations, but did you know that you can go beyond basic relational queries with Entity Framework Core? Do you need to store and …
EFCore.Visualizer Extension for Visual Studio
Microsoft MVP Giorgi Dalakishvili shows the EFCore.Visualizer extension he wrote. You can use it to view the query plan of your queries directly inside Visual Studio.
Webinar – OSS Power-Ups: EntityFramework.Exceptions
When using Entity Framework Core for data access, all database exceptions are wrapped in DbUpdateException. If you need to know whether the exception was caused by a unique …
Update Conference Prague 2024 - Supercharged Search with Semantic Search and Vector Embeddings
Semantic search or search based on the meaning analyzes the context and intent behind the query term to provide relevant results. Using Vector embeddings, the data structure behind …
Basta Mainz 2024 - Beyond Relational with Entity Framework
Entity Framework Core is great for performing crud operations, but did you know that you can go beyond basic relational queries with Entity Framework Core? Do you need to store and …
Developer Week '24 - Supercharged Search with Semantic Search and Vector Embeddings
Semantic search or search based on the meaning analyzes the context and intent behind the query term to provide relevant results. Using Vector embeddings, the data structure behind …
.NET Rocks - Visually Debugging EF Queries with Giorgi Dalakishvili
How do you debug your EF queries? Carl and Richard talk to Giorgi Dalakishvili about his open-source Visual Studio extension, EFCore Visualizer.
Entity Framework Core Query Plan Visualizer
A Visual Studio debugger visualizer that helps you analyze and understand Entity Framework Core query plans directly inside Visual Studio. Get instant insights into how your LINQ …
PostgreSQL range types and Entity Framework Core
In this blog post I explore PostgreSQL range types and how you can use them from Entity Framework Core.
.NET Conf 2023 - Spatial Data with Entity Framework Core and .NET MAUI
Entity Framework Core is great for performing crud operations, but did you know that you can go beyond basic relational queries with Entity Framework Core? Do you need to store …
JetBrains .NET Day Online ’23 - Beyond Relational with Entity Framework
Entity Framework Core is great for performing crud operations, but did you know that you can go beyond basic relational queries with Entity Framework Core? Do you need to store and …
KCDC 2023 - Beyond Relational with Entity Framework
Entity Framework Core is great for performing crud operations, but did you know that you can go beyond basic relational queries with Entity Framework Core? Do you need to store and …
.NET fwdays'23 - Beyond Relational with Entity Framework
Entity Framework Core is great for performing crud operations, but did you know that you can go beyond basic relational queries with Entity Framework Core? Do you need to store and …
AppDevCon Conference 2023 - Beyond Relational with Traditional Databases – Working with JSON, Spatial data and Full-Text Search
Relational databases are great for storing relational data and performing crud operations, but did you know that you can go beyond basic relational queries with RDBMS? Do you need …
What’s New for Oracle .NET and Entity Framework Core Developers
Microsoft .NET developers of Oracle Database will learn about recent Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) features, such as Entity framework Core 6, JSON, bulk copy, and …
How Cloudflare Broke My Build and How I Fixed It
About a month ago, my open-source project EntityFramework.Exceptions failed to build on AppVeyor, the continuous integration service that I have been using for several years.
LINQ to GraphQL: Query GraphQL with LINQ syntax
Would you like to use LINQ syntax for your GraphQL queries? In this week’s episode, I talk about GraphQLinq, a LINQ to GraphQL API to compose strongly typed GraphQL queries with …
CarBot
CarBot is a Slack bot to quickly and easily lookup car owner in the slack workplace.
Visualizing Database Query Plans
Learn what a query plan is, how to view EF Core query plan in LINQPad, find missing indexes, and improve performance of your queries.
Introducing GraphQLinq - Strongly Typed GraphQL Queries with LINQ to GraphQL.
GraphQLinq is a LINQ to GraphQL library for .NET: scaffold strongly typed classes from an endpoint and write GraphQL queries checked at compile time.
Updating LINQPad.QueryPlanVisualizer for LINQPad6 And Entity Framework Core
LINQPad.QueryPlanVisualizer now supports LINQPad 6, Entity Framework Core and PostgreSQL, so you can view query plans for both databases in LINQPad.
Typed Exceptions for Entity Framework Core
When using Entity Framework Core for data access all database exceptions are wrapped in DbUpdateException. If you need to know whether the exception was caused
EntityFramework.Exceptions 3.1.1 - Support for Entity Framework Core 3 and Improved API
In the previous article I introduced EntityFramework.Exceptions, a library which simplifies handling exceptions in Entity Framework Core but the library had one important …
Talk Python Training Mobile Apps
Talk Python Training Mobile Apps are companion apps for Android and Apple for Talk Python Training website. Watch Talk Python Training courses on your device, on the go, or even …
Power Tags Alarm & Reminders
Power Tags Alarm & Reminders Mobile Apps are companion apps for Android and Apple for Power Tags website. Automate tasks via your calendar and never set an alarm or reminder!
Trivia Buff
Did you know that the color orange was named after the fruit? This and many other trivia facts are added daily. All facts are verified and have a corresponding article. Share the …
Australia on Disc Business Edition
Australia on Disc is an Australia-wide information database providing access to the names, addresses and phone numbers (and much more) of over 1 million+ Australian businesses
Business Online Api
Business Online API is a collection of several REST services for interacting with internet banking platform of Bank of Georgia for corporate customers. Service calls are done over …
Entity Framework Exceptions
Handle database errors easily when working with Entity Framework Core. Supports SQLServer, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite and MySql
LINQPad Query Plan Visualizer
An SQL Server and PostgreSQL query execution plan visualizer for LINQPad. LINQPad allows users to execute LINQ queries, but it has no way to display the query execution plan so I …
Introducing EntityFramework.Exceptions
EntityFramework.Exceptions gives you typed exceptions such as UniqueConstraintException in Entity Framework Core, with no database error codes to check.
Introducing LINQPad.QueryPlanVisualizer
LINQPad.QueryPlanVisualizer is a custom visualizer that shows SQL Server query execution plans and missing indexes directly inside LINQPad.
Faking num lock, caps lock and scroll lock leds
How to turn the Num Lock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LEDs on and off from C# without changing the key state, using DeviceIoControl.
Building Expression Evaluator with Expression Trees in C# – Improving the Api
Part 4 of the series: binding variables by name with anonymous objects, and compiling an expression once to evaluate it with different values.