I help .NET developers around the globe ship better software.
Tutorials, deep-dives, and field notes on .NET, EF Core, Claude Code, Docker, Terraform, and the system-design decisions that hold up in production. Written when I've shipped something or learned something worth sharing.
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Tutorials and deep-dives on .NET and Claude Code, plus the EF Core, Docker, Terraform, and system-design decisions I actually run in production. Source repos on GitHub for every article.
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Hands-on courses with progress tracking and full source code - Web API, Claude Code, and more. New ones drop a few times a year.
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Mukesh Murugan
Solutions Architect · Microsoft MVP
Trivandrum, IN
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I started codewithmukesh because the .NET docs are exhaustive, but the hard parts of shipping production software, I had to learn the hard way. The system-design decisions. The Docker and Terraform plumbing. The trade-offs that aren't in any official tutorial.
I write what I wish I'd had when I started. Free. No fluff.
Who I write for
Whatever shape your .NET career is in-
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First-job devs
Just landed your first .NET role. I aim for the kind of clarity that gets you unstuck without dumbing things down. Start with the EF Core, Docker, and system-design intros.
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Mid-level devs
Shipping production code for a year or three. Want the patterns that hold up under load, the perf numbers, and the trade-offs that don't make it into Microsoft Learn.
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Senior + architects
Designing systems. Looking for the architectural decisions behind the framework choices, the deeper benchmarks, and the distributed-system patterns I actually run.
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Career switchers
Coming to .NET from Node, Go, Java, or Python. The ecosystem map, the modern-.NET reset, and what's idiomatic in 2026 - without digging through 10 years of stale Stack Overflow.
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I take topic requests from readers and reply to every email. If there's a .NET problem you can't find good writing on, send it over - it might be the next deep-dive.