ASP.NET Core Series: Performance Testing Techniques

ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform, high-performance, open-source framework for building modern, cloud ready, connected applications.

In this episode, Ryan Nowak chats with Cecil about some tools and techniques for doing performance testing against your ASP.NET Core applications.

[01:52] - What should you really be testing?
[05:26] - Setting memory constraints
[07:45] - Collecting metrics with .NET counters
[12:22] - Load testing tool options
[15:20] - What do all these numbers mean?
[18:38] - Getting setup with the .NET counters tool

ASP.NET Core Performance Best Practices

ASP.NET Core documentation

Create a Web API with ASP.NET Core

Bombardier

dotnet counters

[colebq]

Thanks guys! Would love to see more content like this ..like profiling, memory leaks, memory pressure, etc.

[spasmdesign]

To short give me more!! this is awesome

[ather]

I do agree this topic needs a couple more videos

[saralk]

I was really looking for this kind of video. This video showed all happy path but the real world is not so good :) Could you please make video simulating real prod scenario. Generating/analyzing dumps using perfview etc

[DarraghJones]

Is there anyway to monitor how long an ASP.NET request is waiting for a threadpool thread?

[kushalthapa]

Please recommend any books or guidelines for asp.net core performance?