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Should you use a generic repository? What are the trade-offs?
- Generic repository provides CRUD for all entity types.
- Advantages:
- Reusable and reduces boilerplate.
- Simple for basic CRUD.
- Disadvantages:
- Can become too generic, losing flexibility for complex queries.
- May leak EF Core specifics or cause over-abstraction.
- Sometimes custom repositories per aggregate are better.
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