One Year of Using F# in Production at SBTech

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A year-long F# production effort at SBTech built a push-based queryable API and stateful stream processing using Orleans, Kafka, Mongo/Aerospike, and Docker, with mountebank for contract integration. Engineers with no prior F# delivered a domain-first codebase, fewer exception surfaces, many fast integration tests and a custom in‑bomb load tester; challenges included cultural friction with C# patterns, tooling differences (Rider vs Visual Studio), and evolving module/layout decisions.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:44Why F# in production
3. 4:34First F# adoption
4. 8:10Migrating C# to F#
5. 13:48F# dev culture
6. 18:21F# adoption strategy
7. 22:15Customizing platform
8. 27:58Infrastructure tests
9. 31:57Testing framework
10. 41:55F# 6 and 7 features
11. 52:13One year with F#
12. 56:13Q&A

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