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Personal software factories are a waste of time (www.peterp.me)
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[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In this case what is meant by a "software factory"? Is this like a collection of first party modules, templates, and boilerplate code to make the creation of future projects easier? Is it meant as a freelance design business? Or is a "software factory" something completely different?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    I'd like to know too. Been a software engineer aall my life and never heard this term.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_factory

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago

    Generally it just means a collection of tools, patterns, ways of working, optimizations, testing systems, etc. I’ve been writing software professionally for 20ish years and the value of building a software factory almost always is only realized by the enterprise. Mainly because you also need enough smart engineers to upgrade and adapt the factory to the ever-improving and shifting software landscape and ecosystem and evolving business goals. I can’t imagine anyone who would have enough free time to build a software factory for hobby projects, except for those who hobby projects are their actual job, e.g. full time open source developers.

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