Maximising .NET Core API performance

You may or may not have heard of this statistic from Google: 53% of mobile site visits leave a page that takes longer than three seconds to load https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-resources/data-measurement/mobile-page-speed-new-industry-benchmarks/ With that in mind, it’s important to make our site as responsive and quick as possible. We recently rewrote one of our APIs from scratch, Saved Items, to better pave the way for new functionality and improve the performance by utilising new technologies such as .NET Core 2.