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Ask HN: What is the best online learning subscription for S/W Developers?

• nicostouch 10y ago
  I've only used pluralsight but it's ridiculously good in my opinion. I was asked at work to trial a couple of courses from some providers and in the process was signed up for the pluralsight free trial. The company decided overall it was too expensive, but I was hooked so I bought a subscription with my own money. It has definitely been a tangible boost to my career. I'd be interested to hear others experience of how other providers.
  • csnewb 10y ago
    How is plularsight compared to something like Coursera or Udemy?
    • ungaro 10y ago
      Coursera and Udemy are not subscription based.
• eb0la 10y ago
  Safaribooksonline. I really like the learning paths based on actual documentation (for instance From Developer to Architect, or From sysadmin to data engineer are very good).
  • n13 10y ago
    Can you please provide examples/info about going from developer to architect learning path?
    • eb0la 10y ago
      This is the ToC from the developer to architect tutorial (I thought it was a learning path): Architectural Patterns - Design Versus Architectural Patterns, - Layered Architecture - Event-Driven Architecture - Service-Oriented Architecture - Microkernel Architecture } Pitfalls - Architecture Anti-Patterns, Part 1 - Architecture Anti-Patterns, Part 2 - Tooling and Documentation Soft Skills - Architectural Decisions - Architecture Refactoring - Meeting Hacks Continuous Delivery - Continuous Delivery Defined - Deployment Pipelines - DevOps The "Design Versus Architectural Patterns" section is comes from the book "Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture". Other sections are cherry picked from books and videos. The best part (for me) is that all sections have an estimated time you need to read / watch the content. Hope this helps
      • drakonka 10y ago
        Do you feel that Safari Books Online is still going strong since being acquired by O'Reilly Media? I heard something about big layoffs last year. I'm pretty excited about trying it out but also wondering if it will be a stable learning resource well into the future.
• mead5432 10y ago
  I've used Safari Books, Pluralsight and Egghead.io. Pluralsight was pretty good. I got a lot out of a number of videos. Since they cover a variety of topics, it was great to spin up on something when I needed it. For instance, I was working with Redis and needed to pick up Lua so I took an hour, watched a video and was on my way. This was about a year ago and their selection around Javascript was a little lacking for the topics I wanted but that has probably changed by now. Safari Books is fantastic if you like to read. They also have a ton of books on other topics so it makes it a much wider resource depending on your goal. At the time, I was doing quite a bit of "intrapreneurship" so it was nice to grab a book on product development, business and entrepreneurship. I currently have a subscription to Egghead.io which is way more front-end focused. Around Christmas, they tend to offer a year long subscription for a reduced price which I picked up. The topics don't tend to be as varied as Pluralsight but I think the depth of a lot of them is really good. For instance, I got more out of the Egghead videos around Angular and React than I did from Pluralsight.
  • jimcsharp 10y ago
    Pluralsight got me up and running with StreamInsight so much faster than if I would've had to slog through manual pages and the sparse blogosphere myself. It can be difficult to find content that isn't web related and I'm glad it was there.