Microsoft released ASP.NET Core platform a while ago, and it is getting more and more popularity this year. New platform is no longer tightly coupled with Microsoft Windows and IIS anymore, developers can develop on Mac and deploy to Linux or via Docker containers. .NET Core and ASP.NET Core are free, open source and offer much better performance.The following session will address generic web-application performance-improvement techniques, such as I/O optimizations, caching, message queuing, and .NET Core and ASP.NET Core performance improvements. The audience will learn the details of the latest framework, real-life experience dealing with performance pitfalls and strategies of detecting and resolving issues earlier.