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EF Core 10 Performance 🔥 .NET 10 LTS EF Core 10 Performance Tips — 12 Ways to Make Your Queries Blazing Fast Stop letting Entity Framework Core slow down your .NET backend. These 12 real-world performance tips — with working C# code — will cut your query times, reduce memory usage, and make your database layer production-ready. AS Adnan Shaukat May 19, 2026  ·  14 min read  ·  Backend Developer Entity Framework Core is one of the most popular ORMs in the .NET ecosystem — and one of the most misused. I have reviewed dozens of ASP.NET Core backends where EF Core was the biggest performance bottleneck, not the application logic. Controllers loading thousands of tracked entities just to read them. N+1 query problems silently making 500 database calls per request. Bulk updates done row by row in a loop. EF Core 10, running exclusively on the .NET 10 runtime,...

Table of Contents What is .NET 10 and why it matters Runtime & JIT compiler improvements ASP.NET Core 10 — Web API changes C# 14 — New language features EF Core 10 — Database improvements Performance comparison: .NET 9 vs .NET 10 Built-in AI support — Microsoft Agent Framework Should you upgrade? Final verdict 01 — Overview What is .NET 10 and why does it matter? Microsoft officially released .NET 10 on November 11, 2025 — and it is not a routine update. This is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, which means it will receive security patches and updates until November 2028 . If you are currently on .NET 8 or .NET 9, this is the version to migrate to. After spending time with .NET 10 in real backend projects, I can tell you it genuinely feels faster. The JIT compiler is smarter, the garbage collector is more aggressive about memory, and ASP.NET Core's Minimal APIs are cleane...