NetEase, a leading IT company in China, provides online services for content, gaming, social media, communications and commerce, needed to stay on the leading edge of the ever-evolving mobile games space and chose .NET Core for their back end services. When compared to their previous Java back-end architecture: “.NET Core has reduced our release cycle by 20% and cost on engineering resources by 30%.” When speaking about the throughput improvements and cost savings: “ Additionally, it has made it possible to reduce the number of VMs needed in production by half.”