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 (keynote) 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.
Talks I've Given
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Tutorial: Get Started Building ASP.NET Core Apps Today!
Featuring Rachel Appel
Do you want to learn how to build a complete CRUD web application using the newest features in ASP.NET Core?
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Globalization and localization in ASP.NET Core
Featuring Rachel Appel
We live in a global economy, as the internet allows you to reach customers everywhere. Creating localized websites for global audiences, targeting different cultures and (human) languages with ASP.NET Core, will allow your site to reach a wider audience.
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Build Data Driven Web Apps using ASP.NET Core
Featuring Rachel Appel
Do you want to learn how to build a complete CRUD web application using the newest features in ASP.NET Core? In this session, you'll learn how to construct an ASP.NET Core app from start to finish.
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Tutorial: Build Data Driven Web Apps using ASP.NET Core
Featuring Rachel Appel
Do you want to learn how to build a complete CRUD web application using the newest features in ASP.NET Core?
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Build Real-Time, High-Performing Software with ASP.NET Core
Featuring Rachel Appel
Real-time web functionality is the ability to have the server push messaging directly to the client, rather than relying on the client to make multiple and frequent requests. Many popular websites and apps use real-time communications libraries for many tasks, including push notifications, games,...
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Build Awesome AF Apps!
Featuring Rachel Appel
Azure functions enables developers to host and run chunks of code in the cloud, without the need for creating and maintaining the infrastructure around that code, such a solutions and projects, as you do when developing websites. They are event driven, serverless, compute-on-demand experiences...
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