It is striking the balance between your own queries and ORM. My rule of thumb is that I always go with ORMs for MVPs and small apps. Optimizing for speed usual

It is striking the balance between your own queries and ORM. My rule of thumb is that I always go with ORMs for MVPs and small apps. Optimizing for speed usually means going deeper and building a system or queries for yourself. Until that point I usually stick to less verbose code and more to business rules.