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Gaurav Sharma

20+ years shipping .NET & Azure systems. I write about production systems, career growth, communication, and AI with .NET.

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AI for .NET Engineers

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01 How a .NET Engineer Actually Starts with AI Published

02 How a .NET Engineer Actually Calls an AI Model Published

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The True Code Of A Complete Engineer

Twenty years of lessons on what actually makes engineers grow. The leadership, judgment, and communication skills no course teaches.

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The True Code Of Production Systems

Twenty years of lessons on what it actually takes to run production systems. The judgment, mindset, and decisions no tutorial teaches.

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AI for .NET Engineers

AI for .NET Engineers

A highly structured, hands-on path for .NET engineers to learn and build with AI, using the skills they already have.

Why I Started The True Code of a Complete Engineer Series

Why I Started The True Code of a Complete Engineer Series

Twenty years in tech taught me that the engineers who get trusted in the room are not always the most technically sharp. This is what actually separates them. Real lessons from real teams, real decisions, and real careers.

Why I Started The True Code of Production Systems Series

Why I Started The True Code of Production Systems Series

Most tutorials teach you how to build software. Very few teach you what happens after. This series is about the mindset, questions, and decisions that separate software that just works from software that keeps working.

Why Most ASP.NET Core Apps on IIS Run Without Real Monitoring

Why Most ASP.NET Core Apps on IIS Run Without Real Monitoring

Most ASP.NET Core apps on IIS have no real monitoring. Not because teams don't care, but because traditional APM tool is priced for large server setups or sends data to an external server. RuntimeIQ fixes this with two lines of code, no per-host fee, no data leaving your server.

Know Your Production Hosting Cost Before You Choose Your Tech Stack

Know Your Production Hosting Cost Before You Choose Your Tech Stack

Nobody checks the pricing page until the bill lands. By then, the architecture is locked, the budget is blown, and the uncomfortable conversation with finance is already scheduled.

Why I Finally Stopped Tracking My Engineering Team in Excel and What I Did Instead

Why I Finally Stopped Tracking My Engineering Team in Excel and What I Did Instead

Engineering team management shouldn't require maintaining Excel sheets alongside Jira. Why most leads end up with this dual-tool pattern, what specifically breaks in Jira for team visibility, and the solution that eliminated my daily spreadsheet ritual.

Idempotency Is Not an API Thing: A Conversation Between Two Engineers

Idempotency Is Not an API Thing: A Conversation Between Two Engineers

A conversation between a senior and a junior engineer on what idempotency really is, beyond REST APIs, across SQL jobs, console apps, Azure Functions, message queues, and any operation that can run more than once. Clear, end to end.

Designing an Azure Web App: A Conversation That Went Longer Than Planned

Designing an Azure Web App: A Conversation That Went Longer Than Planned

A detailed conversation between a senior architect and a junior architect on designing a production-ready Azure web app — where database pressure, latency, security boundaries, and observability are worked through in real time.