diff --git a/src/OpenTelemetry.Abstractions/Trace/Export/LinkList.cs b/src/OpenTelemetry.Abstractions/Trace/Export/LinkList.cs
index e5c8e26a688..cee0da7f608 100644
--- a/src/OpenTelemetry.Abstractions/Trace/Export/LinkList.cs
+++ b/src/OpenTelemetry.Abstractions/Trace/Export/LinkList.cs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ namespace OpenTelemetry.Trace.Export
 
     public sealed class LinkList : ILinks
     {
-        public static readonly LinkList Empty = new LinkList(new ILink[0], 0);
+        public static readonly LinkList Empty = new LinkList(Enumerable.Empty<ILink>(), 0);
 
         internal LinkList(IEnumerable<ILink> links, int droppedLinksCount)
         {
diff --git a/src/OpenTelemetry.Abstractions/Trace/Export/TimedEvents.cs b/src/OpenTelemetry.Abstractions/Trace/Export/TimedEvents.cs
index 6d7a20e7656..aa0f3b3865c 100644
--- a/src/OpenTelemetry.Abstractions/Trace/Export/TimedEvents.cs
+++ b/src/OpenTelemetry.Abstractions/Trace/Export/TimedEvents.cs
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ namespace OpenTelemetry.Trace.Export
 
     public sealed class TimedEvents<T> : ITimedEvents<T>
     {
-        public static readonly ITimedEvents<T> Empty = new TimedEvents<T>(new ITimedEvent<T>[0], 0);
+        public static readonly ITimedEvents<T> Empty = new TimedEvents<T>(Enumerable.Empty<ITimedEvent<T>>(), 0);
 
         internal TimedEvents(IEnumerable<ITimedEvent<T>> events, int droppedEventsCount)
         {
-            this.Events = events ?? throw new ArgumentNullException("Null events");
+            this.Events = events ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(events), "Null events");
             this.DroppedEventsCount = droppedEventsCount;
         }
 
diff --git a/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Stackdriver/Implementation/MetricsConversions.cs b/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Stackdriver/Implementation/MetricsConversions.cs
index 7bed6c09936..be08f394a26 100644
--- a/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Stackdriver/Implementation/MetricsConversions.cs
+++ b/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Stackdriver/Implementation/MetricsConversions.cs
@@ -248,8 +248,7 @@ public static List<TimeSeries> CreateTimeSeriesList(
                 timeSeries.Metric = GetMetric(view, labels, metricDescriptor, domain);
 
                 var point = ExtractPointInInterval(viewData.Start, viewData.End, view.Aggregation, points);
-                var timeSeriesPoints = new List<Point> { point };
-                timeSeries.Points.AddRange(timeSeriesPoints);
+                timeSeries.Points.Add(point);
 
                 timeSeriesList.Add(timeSeries);
             }
diff --git a/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin/Implementation/ZipkinSpan.cs b/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin/Implementation/ZipkinSpan.cs
index 07691a5c077..5872bd165b0 100644
--- a/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin/Implementation/ZipkinSpan.cs
+++ b/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Zipkin/Implementation/ZipkinSpan.cs
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ internal class ZipkinSpan
         public ZipkinEndpoint RemoteEndpoint { get; set; }
 
         [JsonProperty("annotations")]
-        public List<ZipkinAnnotation> Annotations { get; set; }
+        public IList<ZipkinAnnotation> Annotations { get; set; }
 
         [JsonProperty("tags")]
         public Dictionary<string, string> Tags { get; set; }
diff --git a/src/OpenTelemetry/Stats/MutableViewData.cs b/src/OpenTelemetry/Stats/MutableViewData.cs
index 3ea7de72faf..9666228bee8 100644
--- a/src/OpenTelemetry/Stats/MutableViewData.cs
+++ b/src/OpenTelemetry/Stats/MutableViewData.cs
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ protected MutableViewData(IView view)
 
         private static Func<MutableDistribution, IAggregationData> CreateDistributionData { get; } = (s) =>
         {
-            var boxedBucketCounts = new List<long>();
+            var boxedBucketCounts = new List<long>(s.BucketCounts.Length);
             foreach (var bucketCount in s.BucketCounts)
             {
                 boxedBucketCounts.Add(bucketCount);