The Challenges of Rest-Service-Heavy Native Mendix Apps

We will start our .BLD() season with a collaboration with the Mendix Community! A session follows Capgemini’s talk at Mendix World by our low-code expert Wouter Penris. Get ready to step into the world of Challenges of Rest-Service-Heavy Native Mendix Apps. Be there!

#Event Schedule
19:00 – 19:05 – Welcome by Mendix community manager: Jan de Vries
19:05 – 20:35 – Wouter Penris – The Challenges of Rest-Service-Heavy Native Mendix Apps
20:35 – 20:40 – Bye bye!

#Abstract
Native apps built with Mendix provide an offline-first capability that works great with a persistable domain. However, if your business plans to use Mendix as a front-end layer only — not persisting anything, but retrieving information by REST service each time that information is required, while also considering web functionality — then you must align web and native in one design. Capgemini low-code expert Wouter Penris will share how this was done in practice as they constructed a front-end layer using Mendix within a complex, multi-layered software framework against very high security standards for a fintech customer. You’ll learn how to design a domain model fit for both web and native, and best practices to prevent compile-time errors while embedding microflows in nanoflows.

During this event, we will demonstrate live how to prevent the compile- and run-time errors outlined in the MxWorld talk, and there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and exchange ideas.

#About: Wouter Penris
Wouter is a senior (lead) Mendix Software Engineer with a background in education (English & Music) and in music (Jazz Vocals & piano); a multi-potentialite. Where as a teacher he spent years perfecting the art of instructing his students as simply and understandably as possible, he now immensely enjoys using this same skill to build high-tech products with an intuitive and easily-understandably Ux. He is a highly creative problem solver, in which he blends research, technology and aesthetics into actual business value and advice. Wouter is a communicator at heart and especially enjoys working with international clients due to his background in English.