Sudhanshu Mishra

A Developer's Glossary to Modern AI - Tokens, Agents, and MCP

A quick guide to demystify the core concepts that power modern AI applications, from the fundamental unit of data to the protocols that let them interact with the world.

Posted on Sunday 19 October 2025

Trust, Security and Accountability in the AI Era

As AI becomes increasingly integrated into software development workflows, establishing robust governance frameworks becomes critical. This post outlines practical principles and engineering controls to maintain security, accountability, and trust when working with AI-assisted development tools.

Posted on Friday 15 August 2025

AWS Lambda Cold Starts Refresher - Understanding Performance and Mitigation Strategies

Cold starts in AWS Lambda can significantly impact application performance, especially for user-facing workloads. This refresher explores what cold starts are, why they happen, and practical strategies to mitigate their impact on your serverless applications.

Posted on Saturday 19 July 2025

Serverless - A Powerful Tool, But No Silver Bullet

Serverless is a a great tool to go to production swiftly but it is not a silver bullet. It has its own set of challenges.

Posted on Sunday 3 November 2024

Awesome libraries and tools for .NET (Core and Full framework)

A list of awesome libraries and tools for .NET (Core and Full framework)

Posted on Tuesday 19 March 2019

Making sense of ASP.NET Core Metapackage Versioning

Understaning how TFM (Target Framework Moniker) and the Microsoft.AspNetCore.App metapackage versioning work together

Posted on Tuesday 12 February 2019

Nuget CLI (Command Line Interface) - tips, tricks and gotchas (Mac and Windows)

Nuget CLI can be a powerful ally - once you get past little gotchas. This post documents my adventures and learnings whilst trying to leverage the CLI across Mac and Windows

Posted on Sunday 2 December 2018

Setting up Azure CLI on mac

How to setup environment variables on Mac OSX

Posted on Sunday 14 October 2018

Setting up environment variables on Mac

How to setup environment variables on Mac OSX

Posted on Sunday 14 October 2018

A set of coding and code review guidelines inspired by "The Zen of Python"

I recently started learning Python, and came across what the Python community calls "The Zen of Python". Somehow, I felt that it can form the basis of what could be simple to follow coding and code review guidelines. This post is my attempt to extract a set of guidelines out of "The Zen"

Posted on Saturday 6 January 2018

My take on the net-neutrality debate

The topic of net neutrality has been in the news again following a decision by US agency FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to overturn its ruling from 2015. This has ramifications for all of us. I explain what net neutrality is (at least what I understand of it) and why it matters.

Posted on Saturday 30 December 2017

Notes from Jeff Patton's talk - Requirements, Product Ownership and Agile Development

A transcript and my notes from Jeff Patton's talk on Requirements, Product Ownership and other misunderstood concepts in Agile Development

Posted on Sunday 29 October 2017

Fix branch hierarchies in git

You use git, good on ya! You branched off of a branch that should've been left alone. How do you change the "parent" of the new branch?!

Posted on Monday 18 September 2017

Targeting .NET 4.7 from Visual Studio 2017

Developer tools have a way of stumping you in the most unexpected of ways. This post analyses and then illustrates how to get VS 2017 list .NET 4.7 as a target framework for your projects, minus the pain.

Posted on Tuesday 25 July 2017

Taming bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10 Creators Update!

For the uninitiated, you can now run a real bash prompt on Windows 10 Anniversary Update or higher. Let's try to make sense of what's going on with that!

Posted on Friday 7 July 2017

C# 7 Says Hello World!

My favourite features from the newly minted 7th edition of my favourite programming language C#!

Posted on Monday 10 October 2016

Learn Open Source (or anything!)

Free self-taught Computer Science for everyone (and pointers to learn stuff quickly)

Posted on Monday 26 September 2016

IIS Express 500.19 Cannot read configuration file - because it's looking at the wrong path!

Getting out of a vicious and unnerving IIS express issue

Posted on Tuesday 23 August 2016

C# 6.0 Features Not Working with MVC 5 / Visual Studio 2015 / Razor

How I got out of the dreaded yellow screen of death in an MVC5 project

Posted on Tuesday 23 August 2016

WCF service startup error "This collection already contains an address with scheme http"

Fixing WCF Deployment issues on shared hosting

Posted on Sunday 31 July 2016

Avoiding an Identity Crisis (in your apps)

In your code, an entity requires a unique ID - A Customer ID, Order ID, Message ID. SQL Identity columns do not cut it for you and the default GUID class isn't suitable either. There's hope though!

Posted on Thursday 21 April 2016

IDisposable Pattern - A refresher on the need and correct implementation

One may wonder why another post on IDisposable? After all, how difficult could an implementation of an interface that has only one void parameter-less method be? Well, read on to find out.

Posted on Thursday 5 March 2015

Programmer Interviews and the law of “Leaky Abstractions”

My thoughts after conducting 20 odd technical interviews, trying to correlate two seemingly divergent aspects of the tech life.

Posted on Monday 2 March 2015

Double Check Locking in C# - End of life?

After having a discussion with a colleague, I was researching for the correct way to implement double-check locking in C# and .NET 4.5. Turns out a lot of water has flown under the bridge and things have changed quite a bit. I'll try to document my findings here.

Posted on Friday 13 February 2015

NUnit Assertions - IsAssignableFrom and IsInstanceOf

Tiny goodies from my experiences with NUnit

Posted on Thursday 12 February 2015

Logging Frameworks for .NET

A monologue about the available options when it comes to logging frameworks for .NET applications

Posted on Thursday 5 February 2015

ASP.NET Web API - Content Negotiation, Content-Type, Accept and Accept-Charset in a nutshell

My take on content negotiation, REST, HTTP and how it all comes together in ASP.NET Web API

Posted on Wednesday 4 February 2015

First Chance exceptions - What are the chances?

Ever noticed your Visual Studio output windows show pesky First Chance exception messages? Read on to find out what they are.

Posted on Tuesday 3 February 2015