Ricardo Pereira - Rapid Application Development with OutSystems: Create applications with OutSystems up to seven times faster than with traditional technologies

Create applications with OutSystems up to seven times faster than with traditional technologies

Ricardo Pereira

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First of all, I would like to dedicate this book to my wife, Carmen, my son, Afonso, and my daughter, Maria, for being my source of energy and support, for being part of my life, and for all the love they give me.

I would also like to thank all my family, my parents, brother, grandparents, in-laws, brothers-in-law, cousins, and nephew, for believing in me and for all their love. Thanks to my brother from another mother, Joo Roque, for walking beside me in this adventure that is life.

I would like to give special thanks to Andreia Tulcids and Ana Lopes from OutSystems, for all their support and help throughout the book's execution process.

Finally, and in a very special way, I wanted to dedicate, in addition to the work of this book, the effort and will, to two very important people in my life who have recently passed away: my grandfather, Jos Pereira, and my uncle, Jos Costa Pereira. Thank you for everything you represented to me and for the examples you led that served as a basis for shaping me.

Ricardo Pereira

I have known and worked with Ricardo Pereira for 3 years now. We had the opportunity to work together to deliver OutSystems projects in the banking industry in Portugal and Spain. Being such an important line of business, best practices, solid architectures, and security were always at the top of the requirements list.

Ricardo has been working with OutSystems for quite some time and is now one of the OutSystems Champions worldwide. OutSystems is part of his professional DNA. He breathes it all the time, throughout his professional career.

In Rapid Application Development with OutSystems, Ricardo takes you on an amazing journey through all the important aspects of delivering OutSystems applications to the world. From the basic topics to the more advanced ones, you will be able to fully understand what it's like to build an OutSystems application from scratch.

From architecture and data modeling to logic, services, and the UI, you will find the proposed exercises and examples very useful, to better understand how things are put together. Also, business processes and platform monitoring are an excellent complement to get a clear big picture of what the OutSystems platform is all about.

In this book, Ricardo encapsulates the knowledge gained throughout his most recent professional career. With his words, step-by-step instructions, screenshots, examples, and links to additional sources of information, you will learn how to continuously enhance your skills and apps.

Paulo Moreira

OutSystems Expert, Technical Team Leader at Nexllence, Powered by Glintt

Ricardo Pereira is one of the most active members of the OutSystems community. He is a professional developer of reactive web applications and has been active in the OutSystems community since 2016, contributing to us and supporting many developers. He has about 400 Kudos for solving issues and providing information in the forum. Ricardo has been recognized for his work and is now an OutSystems Champion, an officially recognized OutSystems Community Advocate.

This book, written by a man with a real wealth of knowledge and experience, provides an easy-to-understand overview of the know-how needed to develop applications with OutSystems. In this book, you will learn about the basics of the OutSystems platform, the necessary tools and components, application development methods, how to implement your own logic, how to implement server-side and client-side logic, data modeling, exception handling, UI design, debugging, and more. OutSystems is a cool low-code development tool, but using it effectively requires knowledge of software application development as well as OutSystems own terminology. This book is a must-read for developers who will be using OutSystems to develop applications.

OutSystems has many experts like Ricardo in its user community (OutSystems User Groups). This is a great honor for us. I hope that Ricardos book will be of help to many developers.

Taiji Hagino

Lead Community Manager, Developer Advocate at OutSystems

Ricardo Pereira is passionate about programming, software, and technology. Coming from a computer science background, he has become, in the last 5 years, a strong bettor on OutSystems learning, holding all existing certifications of the platform. Furthermore, in 2020, he was named OutSystems Champion, participating in several events and following the mentoring program as a mentor. His time is distributed between software projects, learning, studying, and spending time with family.

Ricardo lives with his wife and their two children in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. His greatest influence in the relentless pursuit of continuous improvement and being the best version of himself is his grandfather.

This book was driven by Packt's invitation, as I had never considered writing anything. I've always been passionate about what I do, programming, for OutSystems, but only after the invitation did I realize that I could share everything I have learned and experienced in this technology in a much broader way. For all this, I would like to thank Packt and the entire team involved in the process for believing in me, for the fantastic help they gave, and for being the wonderful people they are.

Joo Martins Pereira