Of all the courses I took, I didn't like this one specifically. For one specific reason. It requires an Azure account. However, then I tried to create one, I was refused, because of my Revolut card. It is a so called IBAN discrimination policy by Microsoft. When I started asking questions "Why", it turns out this is done specifically by Microsoft so some guy could not waste their resources on 300 thousand dollars using prepaid card on 200 dollars. But if that's the case, the course should have used some other thing to suggest to learners, or warn them very explicitly on the dangers. After all - this is a learning course, students can make mistakes. If they make a mistake that will cause them to lose a lot of money - that's something problematic. This is the first course I see where you have not only have a subscription on Coursera itself, but also provide your credit card credentials to some third party like Microsoft.

Can't really do the labs without a paid Azure account. The 200$ Credit never materialized. Also, GitHub Actions Workflow and python coding was a distraction for many things that could be done simply through the Azure services in place. So many errors in deployment already so need to reduce the steps and ensure everything is in place. Because the mystery of where 'demo-index' was configured was never solved, I didn't know if my configs were wrong or I missed something as the errors are so unintelligible.

To be avoided - unstructured and uninformative

Great learning resources that will be useful long after completing the course, concise presentations, and clear explanations of all topics

excelente

what a good lecture.

It is a good course if you have some strong problem solving skills. because some very important points are just briefly covered and discussed. The code is not directly applicable, and you need to develop the updated codes yours. You won't get much support from the course provider and the forum which seems lacking a moderator.