Is O'Reilly Learning and Training worth it?

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[@DenisKisina]

Thanks for the thorough comparison, it was very helpful in choosing a learning platform.

[@MarioCarrion]

Thanks Denis, I'm glad the video helped. Take care.

[@josejuanct971]

thank you for the review and comparing, I think a complement for digital books for persons who likes to consult, is to look for those in Humble bundle, yes!, I know that we must to wait for an opportunity but sometimes worth it when a good bundle is in the offers, but, as you mention, this is for those people who like to have anything permanent and be owner of at least a digital version

[@ahmadkharsah]

Thanks for the review, it helps me decide.

[@CarlosEnriqueSanchez-fx7lt]

Por mucho, tu vídeo es el mejor para este tema. Felicidades

[@gsss6347]

Mario you the best, was looking for such comparison. Thank You

[@MarioCarrion]

I'm glad it worked. Best!

[@seddikalaouiismaili]

I agree..
Good content 👍👍

[@henriquealexandreh]

Really nice video. I also started my subscription with O'Reilly because of Bill Kennedy's course.

[@MarioCarrion]

Thanks Henrique. The "Live Events" are useful as well, they are recorded in case you attend and watch live.

[@roberttakenzire2090]

Thanks for comparison, have acquired monthly membership to begin my learning journey.

[@MarioCarrion]

Thanks for watching; since I recorded the video O'Reilly has become a better platform.

[@anonyfamous42]

I wish I had that service 10 years ago

[@Luis-kg3if]

Thanks for the review, Mario! What do you think about Answers? How good is the NLP engine behind it? Does it provide proper paragraphs and snippets for most questions or does it depend a lot on how well-tailored the question is? Is the content useful enough for solving day-to-day problems? What about the Slack integration?
I think that Answers is the killer feature to convince an employer to pay this service for the company's engineers, as it may save precious worker hours in:
- Vague Google and Stack Overflow searches.
- Fixing mistakes caused by picking wrong solutions from a random post that was misunderstood.
- Wandering into the digital library in search of which book/video fits better the topic you need to deepen into.
- Facilitating junior developers the access to how-to-do-this-specific-task, so they ask senior devs mainly for high-level project details rather than for how to, for instance, define a callback for a filter function.

[@MarioCarrion]

Answers is still a work in progress, it's not bad but it depends on what you're searching for. I haven't used the slack integration (I didn't know there was one really) so I can't comment about that.

[@leoxiaoyanqu]

Thanks for the insights Mario! Did you find any good Rust resources that you'd recommend?

[@MarioCarrion]

Hello Leo, I'm reading "Programming Rust, 2nd Edition" although I haven't finished yet it looks like a good resource.

[@leoxiaoyanqu]

@@MarioCarrion Cool, thanks!

[@twowheelsgood28]

Pluralsight has some very dodgy practices. I would really think twice about using their plaform. They are not very ethical in terms of how they treat their instructors. Sometimes spending more is a good thing. I agree with Mario the depth and breath of the materials make Oreilly a pretty good deal.

[@muhammedozdogan5133]

Hello Mario, can you share your favorite courses/books on O'Reilly

[@MarioCarrion]

Hello Muhammed, here's my list of favorites:
* "Ultimate Go Programming, Second Edition"
* "Software Architecture: The Hard Parts"
* "Building Evolutionary Architectures"
* "Designing Data-Intensive Applications"
* Anything and everything from any year of "Software Architecture Conference"
* Any of the "Live Events" trainings

[@Sunny__visual]

I downloaded some books, after my subscriptions ended... can I still access my downloaded offline book

[@MarioCarrion]

I'm not 100% sure, my guess is no because you need the app to see those books; either way I think you should ask the support team for details.