ASP.NET Core: The One Hour Makeover

The “out of the box” template has some lowest common denominator/simplicity tradeoffs that make it easy to understand and work within a variety of scenarios, but there are lots of performance and deployment tweaks that experienced developers should make before deploying.

If you had one hour to tweak a new project, what would you do? I'll include some top open-source libraries, best practices from ASP.NET Community Standup links, recommendations from the ASP.NET Core team, etc.

About Jon Galloway:
Former Executive Director of dotnetfoundation.org, currently Senior Program Manager at Microsoft focused on .NET and Web Development
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