Building a software platform for a product line by Rachel Appel
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We are incredibly happy to announce that Rachel Appel is visiting Copenhagen and joining us for an in-person meetup hosted by our friends at Siteimprove.
"Building a software platform for a product line" by Rachel Appel
One of the least-known engineering practices in the software development industry outside of embedded systems is software product line engineering. That’s because many companies create multiple, disparate products that result in overly-complex management, more bugs, and more difficult maintenance, when instead they could have created a platform (product line) for their software products. Creating a product line results in an architecture where code is more reusable than with any other architecture. It’s the ultimate way to reuse code.
A lot of software can benefit from being in a software product line. The benefits result in faster time to market, lower maintenance, fewer bugs, and makes inherit complexity more manageable. In this talk, you’ll learn how to architect and build a product platform by examining the JetBrains Platform SDK as well as some other industry notable product lines.
About the speaker
## Rachel Appel
Rachel currently works for JetBrains as a Developer Advocate. She has been in the business of creating software for over 25 years, as an author, mentor, and speaker at top industry conferences such as Microsoft’s //BUILD, Øredev, NetConf, SDD and others. During her career, she has worked on projects of all sizes from the smallest of apps, to the largest enterprise systems at some of the world’s leading companies.
Rachel’s expertise is in web development on the Microsoft stack, specifically Azure Functions, ASP.NET MVC, Web Forms, SignalR, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Her hobbies include science, reading, languages, and travel.
UPDATE 13/09: Maarten is unfortunately not able to make it to Copenhagen due to medical issues. Rachel will still be here though, so we will go ahead with the meetup and enjoy her talk :)
