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Ask HN: Experiences with low-code systems?

I'm thinking about introducing a low-code system to handle internal operational processes. I'm thinking things like viewing/handling dead-letter messages, manual intervention decision points, short lived operational tasks that haven't yet/won't be automated.

I'd expect the software engineering team to manage these apps, so the benefit I can see is the quick turnaround on the UI, rather than handing over to non-engineering users for development.

What are people's experiences with these tools? More specifically:

Can you do an effective SDLC with them? e.g. code on a staging environment, push to version control, promote to prod, rollback to old version

Have you actually saved time with them?

Did you avoid introducing unworkable complexity?

68 points alphalima 4 years ago 74 comments

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