When your back-end systems are handling tens of thousands of requests per second—often across distributed microservices—performance is no longer optional. It directly impacts scalability, reliability, and cloud costs. High-performance code isn’t just about speed; it’s about building smarter, leaner, and more efficient systems.

Microsoft .NET has been evolving for over 25 years, and there are countless ways to solve the same problem. But which approach is truly the fastest? Which allocates the least memory? Which scales the best under pressure?
In this high-energy, interactive session, we turn performance tuning into a game show. You and your fellow attendees will be challenged with real-world coding scenarios, competing to identify the most performant solutions. Expect friendly competition, eye-opening benchmarks, and yes—fabulous prizes.

You’ll learn:
• How to recognize hidden performance traps in everyday .NET code
• Which modern .NET techniques consistently outperform traditional approaches
• How small optimizations can lead to massive gains in throughput and cost savings
• How to think like a performance engineer when writing production code

All demos are built on .NET 10, ensuring you’re seeing the latest language features, runtime improvements, and performance enhancements in action.
This session blends education with entertainment, delivering practical, immediately applicable techniques in a format you won’t forget. You’ll walk away with sharper instincts, stronger code, and a renewed passion for writing high-performance .NET applications.

Part of my ongoing series:
“Improving Code Quality… One Developer at a Time.”

This session also features insights and benchmark data from the fifth edition of my book, Rock Your Code: Code & App Performance for Microsoft .NET, available on Amazon: https://bit.ly/CodePerf5

Get ready to play, compete, and rock your code performance to the next level.

Performance matters when your applications are handling massive traffic and running in the cloud. It affects speed, scalability, and cost. With over 25 years of evolution, .NET offers many ways to solve the same problem—but which one is the most performant?

In this interactive, game-show-style session, you’ll compete with other attendees to identify the fastest and most efficient coding approaches using real-world .NET examples. Expect live benchmarks, practical tips, friendly competition, and prizes.

You’ll learn how to spot performance pitfalls, choose the best-performing patterns, and apply modern optimization techniques using .NET 10. Walk away with actionable insights you can use immediately to make your code faster, leaner, and more cost-effective.

Part of the series: “Improving Code Quality… One Developer at a Time.”