Functional Programming in F#: Fad or Fabulous?

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Builds a running drone flight tracking app (GitHub link provided) to show F# used with Wolverine, ASP.NET and Entity Framework, demonstrating concrete features: computational expressions (task/let!), piping, discriminated unions with pattern matching, and railway-oriented error handling. Shows EF integration via CLI mutable, uses Newtonsoft.Json for DU serialization, includes unit tests (xUnit/NUnit) and a working message bus workflow. Good if you want practical F# examples that actually run and interop with C#.

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1. 0:00Functional programming in F#
2. 8:03ASP.NET API with Wolverine
3. 21:41Business logic with unions
4. 32:12Railway oriented programming
5. 41:02Composing functions with pipes
6. 51:03F# features and benefits
7. 1:07:17Q&A on F#

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