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Rapid Application Development with OutSystems

By : Ricardo Pereira
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Rapid Application Development with OutSystems

By: Ricardo Pereira

Overview of this book

OutSystems is a software development platform that speeds up the build phase by abstracting code and making almost everything visual. This means replacing textual language with visual artifacts that avoid lexical errors and speed up code composition using accelerators and predefined templates. The book begins by walking you through the fundamentals of the technology, along with a general overview of end-to-end web and mobile software development. You'll learn how to configure your personal area in the cloud and use the OutSystems IDE to connect with it. The book then shows you how to build a web application based on the best architectural and developmental practices in the market, and takes the same approach for the mobile paradigm. As you advance, you'll find out how to develop the same application, and the great potential of reusing code from one paradigm in another and the symbiosis between them is showcased.The only application that'll differ from the application in the exercise is the one used in business process technology (BPT), with a focus on a common market use case. By the end of this OutSystems book, you'll be able to develop enterprise-level applications on the web and mobile, integrating them with third parties and other systems on the market. You'll also understand the concepts of performance, security, and software construction and be able to apply them effectively.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: OutSystems 101
5
Section 2: The Magical Path of the Backend
10
Section 3: Create Value and Innovate with the Frontend
16
Section 4: Extensibility and Complexity of the OutSystems Platform

Chapter 13: Designing the Architecture of Your OutSystems Applications

In this chapter, we will understand how we should segment and lay out our modules and applications at the architecture level in order to allow for scalability, robustness, and security.

We will focus on the best practices and standards advised by OutSystems in order to understand the standard and regularly used model. This does not mean that in our professional careers there are no variant cases, but we must always consider the trade-off and the context scenario.

In this chapter, we will complement the information already explained in Chapter 4, Using Your Modules to Simplify and Encapsulate Your Code, and we can see this chapter as an extension of that one.

In order to better understand this topic, the chapter is divided into the following sections:

  • The importance of architecture
  • The 3 Layer Canvas (Architecture Canvas)
  • The architecture design process

By the end of this chapter,...