ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server.

In the next sections, we’ll implement a simple web API in ASP.NET Core. After we create our API, we’ll implement a Refit client to consume it.

While .NET 8 included optimizations for Web API applications, the corporation claims that .NET 9 will extend these optimizations to other types of applications.

Decreasing page load time is imperative when dealing with Web site performance. Tony Patton explains how you can make this happen by using the .NET Caching API.