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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have discussed the enormous size of the OutSystems ecosystem, its enormous potential, and everything we can rely on to ensure that we shine in the development of web and mobile applications.

Basically, the OutSystems platform provides a list of built-in features to help us develop faster, more securely, and with a very low margin of error, including horizontal scalability, hot deployment, asynchronous logging, bulk insert, multiple catalogs (only for on-premises installations), CDN support, traffic optimization, cache, and SEO-friendly URLs.

In addition, under the hood, the platform offers state-of-the-art capabilities, such as automated batch processing scaling, log tables rotation, database connections pooling, unused database connections unloading, optimized field fetching in aggregates, and optimized dataset memory loading.

In the next chapter, we'll take a closer look at the main components, tools, and capabilities used daily to develop our applications quickly, securely, and with high scalability. A work of art, in other words!

Interesting, isn't it? Well, we're just starting out...