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A curated list of awesome .NET Performance books, courses, trainings, conference talks, blogs and most inspiring open source contributors. Inspired by awesome-... stuff.

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Awesome .NET Performance

A curated list of awesome .NET Performance books, courses, trainings, conference talks, blogs and most inspiring open source contributors. Inspired by awesome-... stuff.

Books

Video Courses

On-Site Trainings

Upcoming conferences

  • 2020
    • Dotnetos - .NET Performance World - Two-day conference dedicated solely to .NET performance! Both international and Polish speakers (all sessions in English). Chance to meet well-known people from .NET performance area in person. (01-02 October 2020, Warsaw)

Conference talks

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Blogs

Inspiring Open Source Contributors

Performance tools

Benchmarking

  • BenchmarkDotNet - Powerful .NET library for benchmarking.
  • NBench - Cross-platform performance benchmarking and testing framework for .NET applications.

Profiling

  • Prefix - Free lightweight profiler for ASP.NET apps shows everything your code is doing across 30+ common libraries
  • MiniProfiler - Free profiling tool for .NET applications with Entity Framework and ASP.Net integration (Core supported for both versions)
  • dotTrace - Paid profiler for .NET applications from the JetBrains team, included in the Resharper Ultimate package

Application Insights

  • App Metrics - App Metrics is an open-source and cross-platform .NET library used to record and report metrics within an application and reports it's health. See the docs for more details.

High Performance Libraries

  • Mathematics
    • MathNet - Math.NET is an opensource initiative to build and maintain toolkits covering fundamental mathematics, targetting advanced but also every day needs of .Net developers.
    • Spreads - "Series and Panels for Real-time and Exploratory Analysis of Data Streams", a library for fast time series incremental calculations + SIMD-optimized byte-shuffling/LZ4/Zstd compression using Blosc library.
  • CPU Optimization
    • SIMD Array - SIMD and other Performance enhanced Array operations for F#.
    • NativeInterop - Generic pointers and native 64-bit arrays for .NET.
  • IO Optimization
    • Nessos Streams - A lightweight F#/C# library for efficient functional-style pipelines on streams of data.
    • Wire - A high performance polymorphic serializer for the .NET framework.
    • Disruptor-Net - .NET port of LMAX Disruptor, a faster alternative to BlockingCollection.
    • MPMCQueue.NET - Bounded multiple producers multiple consumers queue for .NET.
  • Collections
    • ImTools - Immutable persistent collections and helpers designed for performance and simplicity of use.
  • Parsing and Compiling
  • Inversion of Control frameworks
    • DryIoc - For the past years a fastest Dependency Injection library without sacrificing on functionality.
    • SimpleInjector - Fast Dependency Injection library that promotes best practice to steer developers towards the pit of success.

Article series

Benchmarking

Monitoring

Investigations

Debugging performances series by Tess Ferrandez

JIT Optimizations

Refs

Threading

Memory

.NET Core 3.0 Intrinsics

Performance Improvements in .NET Core