I think the repo with these benchmarks have some really interesting things in them in general. It's really worth taking a peek at some of the implementations.

The aspcore platform benchmark does some cool trickery based on whether the test even requires a database using compiler #if directives. Though it seems to be flagged as "realistic approach" Dunno if I agree with that. I think I'm looking at the right code. https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...