Discover how to prevent downtime, extend app lifespan, and maintain peak performance across your OutSystems portfolio. From proactive monitoring to smart scalability planning, this article offers actionable strategies to keep your applications resilient and responsive.

Databases handle thousands or even millions of records, and they need to be able to return results in milliseconds. Thus, it is imperative to optimize data fetching: indexes. This article explains indexes and how to implement them in OutSystems.

To show you how you can optimize your queries to fetch only the records you want or how to apply some logic to manage heavy tables, let’s go on a trip where we’ll visit our beloved aggregates and, the ones feared by many, SQL queries.

Whenever we need to process a lot of data, a best practice is to have that done in the background with a Heavy Timer. As its name indicates, a Heavy Timer is a Timer used to process heavy, intensive operations.