.NET 10 represents a significant leap forward for enterprise software development. The performance improvements across the runtime are substantial — benchmark numbers show 15–25% throughput gains in typical web API workloads.
Native AOT in Production
One of the most impactful features we've adopted is Native AOT compilation. For our microservices that handle high-frequency, low-latency workloads, the reduction in cold start times and memory footprint has been transformative. We've seen cold start times drop from 800ms to under 80ms in containerized environments.
Minimal APIs at Scale
The evolution of Minimal APIs in .NET 10 has made them a first-class choice for microservice endpoints. The performance overhead of traditional MVC is simply not justified for services that need to process thousands of requests per second.
Combined with the new OpenAPI improvements, we now have a clean, type-safe API surface that's both fast and well-documented out of the box.
Our Migration Journey
For our most recent enterprise client, a fintech platform processing 50,000 daily transactions, we migrated from .NET 6 to .NET 10 over a 6-week period. The process was smooth, and the performance gains were immediately visible in production metrics.