Writing code is only the first part of putting software into production - to run, maintain and scale your product, you'll need to understand and design the overall system.

This 2 day course will take you through best practice in both writing an F# based, distributed system and running it in production - including sensible inter-operation with components written in other languages.

To fit this into 2 days, we'll need to make some opinionated decisions (such as using F#!), but many of the ideas and concepts will be transferable.

We'll cover:

• Writing reliable code using F#'s unique language features
• Learn how to apply SOLID (like) principles in a functional style
• How to instrument distributed services
• Continuous Improvement, including unit testing & performance measurement
• Running distributed systems in development
• Deploying distributed systems to production
• Good practice in dependency management and code organization
  

Obviously to fit this in to a two day course, we'll be making some opinionated decisions around libraries and technologies to use.

You'll come away with:

A git repository of your completed work, which will include:

• Nicely instrumented, benchmarked and unit tested F# services
• A scripted, deterministic deployment process for the overall distributed system
• Real time centralized logging, metrics and health feedback from the system, whether running on the dev machine or in production
• Zero down time continuous deployment for the overall system
  

What have people said about the course?

"Thanks to @mavnn for an excellent “Building Solid Systems in F#” workshop. Really enjoyed the course material and meeting everybody. (Also I’ve been inspired to teach myself Emacs :) )" - Kevin Knoop

Prerequisites:

You need to have:

• to have written some F# code and be comfortable with the syntax
  
• a reasonable background knowledge of software development
  

You need to bring a laptop with:

• required: an up to date F# development environment (you'll need to be able to build dotnet core 2.0 apps)
• required: minikube and kubectl installed
  
• helpful: a bash shell
• helpful: docker

Is this a replacement for Level Up Your F#?

No; Level Up Your F# (https://blog.mavnn.co.uk/level-up-your-f-number-skills/) focussed on the details of the F# language, this course is focussed on building systems. We will be running Level Up Your F# again in the future.

Can you invoice me rather than taking payment by card?

Yes - email us@mavnn.co.uk and we'll sort it for you.