Mis-use of Repository pattern
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Based on the most formal definition and description of the Repository pattern in [Martin Fowler's "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" (Addison Wesley, 2003)](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Patterns_of_Enterprise_Application_Archi/FyWZt5DdvFkC?hl=en), it would be better to use the term "Wrapper/Adapter" pattern instead of "Repository".
The true "Repository" is a mediator, and its duty is just fetching data, not persisting.
However, your version is merely a wrapper around a complex composite class (EF DbContext) that acts as a facade behind the scenes.
Many computer science students and software developers are misguided by this documentation because Microsoft is a giant tech company, and they believe every word of Microsoft documentation as if it were told by God.
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* Content: [Implementing the infrastructure persistence layer with Entity Framework Core](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/microservices/microservice-ddd-cqrs-patterns/infrastructure-persistence-layer-implementation-entity-framework-core#implement-custom-repositories-with-entity-framework-core)
* Content Source: [docs/architecture/microservices/microservice-ddd-cqrs-patterns/infrastructure-persistence-layer-implementation-entity-framework-core.md](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/main/docs/architecture/microservices/microservice-ddd-cqrs-patterns/infrastructure-persistence-layer-implementation-entity-framework-core.md)
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* Technology: **microservices**
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