When it's time to develop, OutSystems guides developers to ensure every application has no performance bottlenecks or potential security issues with design-time validation. As it generates the source code for applications, OutSystems optimizes code performance and security at all application layers. From the number of connections used to access the database to the size of the pages, it's able to ensure optimal functionality for the intended application.
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The OutSystems visual editor includes performance validation tests. This way, developers know about performance bottlenecks before deploying the application.
This design-time validation is delivered by the TrueChange engine, which reports potential errors, scalability, security issues and performance bottlenecks, and dependency inconsistency.
The issues reported include:
All the code generated by OutSystems is optimized to ensure that the application being developed behaves correctly and avoids scalability and reliability issues. To reduce bandwidth bottlenecks, it uses compression to optimize page size.
Database fetch optimization ensures that only data that is effectively used in the application is fetched from the database regardless of what the developer has coded. Smart database-to memory-algorithms assure that minimal memory is used by only loading datasets into memory as a last resort. Database connection pooling prevents excessive use of the operating system, the network and database resources, and smart connection release reduces the consumption of resources by the operating system, network and database.
Smart commit, rollback, and release of transactions ensures that no database update is left forgotten or done in error. Automated indexing of primary and foreign keys optimizes the most common database queries. Database timeout containment eliminates the risk of heavy queries affecting the performance of the application and database environment.
Adapter timeout containment eliminates the risk that custom-coded components and integration will affect the performance of applications. Asynchronous bulk logging ensures that no logging activity affects end-users and business events and built-in log rotation makes sure that database logs do not grow indefinitely.
Scheduler throttling keeps even heavy loads of badly programmed scheduled activities from taking over all of the processing power. Transactional deployment ensures that applications are deployed correctly and that incompatible versions of an application’s components are not running at the same time.
Multitenant data isolation and containment allows teams to operate multiple applications in perfect data isolation.