A Functional Architecture with F# by Mark Seemann

Watched the course A Functional Architecture with F# by Mark Seemann.

Content

There was a broad range of topics in the course.

Some of the key topics:

• F# based ASP.NET WebAPI website
• Dataflow architecture
• Pipes and filters pattern
• Message based design
• Map/reduce
• F# agents

Opinion

The narration was one of my favorite aspects of the course. The tone and inflection made the video interesting as well as informative. It wasn't just a data dump from Mark's brain as he was telling a story and he had the proper inflection and aplomb that made me think he was a regular Dev Attenborough.

Overall it was like watching someone demo and explain how they wrote a song. The overall teaching and delivery style reminded me of a music teacher I had.

The general patterns looked like (Music/Code):

• Play part of the song/Demonstrate the finished feature
• Step through the notes/Write the code
• Occasionally deep dive on a new technique or pattern/Same
• Step back and explain how it fits the rest of the piece/Same
• Play part of the song/Demonstrate the finished feature - This time adding more context and things to think about

The style was familiar and worked well for me and the content was high quality and hit all the right design notes. Overall a great video series on the topics.