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The world of software development thrives on innovative concepts like Object Orientated Programming (OOP), Agile Development, Continuous Integration (CI), DevOps, Low-Code, Enterprise & Micro Services, UI / UX design, and many more.

There is arguably one key concept behind many of these buzzwords, one that has seen a huge resurgence in recent times. It continues to heavily influence the modern tooling and processes used in software development today, and is now being claimed by a broader set of products covering a host of innovative approaches. That term is Rapid Application Development (RAD).

With big software firms like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and Salesforce, to name just a few, all evangelising RAD approaches, this paper will explore how RAD is evolving, and how RAD Studio® today continues to innovate tooling and frameworks and supports the latest development practices and protocols.