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Key concepts

In this section, we will provide information about key concepts in Altogic. Please take a few minutes to read about these.

In Altogic, you and your team members work on an App. You can think of an application as your workspace. An application can be as simple as the backend of a task list or as complex as the backend of a CRM (customer relationship management) or ERP (enterprise resource planning) app.

Key entities in Altogic

Each application can have many snapshots and each snapshot can have many models, services, tasks, queues and endpoints. Additionally, each application can have a single or multiple environments.

It is also important to learn the basics of expressions which are frequently used in setting parameters of services, default values of fields and querying data from the database.