Announcement
· Mar 11, 2022

1st InterSystems Portuguese Tech Article Contest

Hi Developers !

Welcome to our 🏆1st InterSystems Portuguese Tech Article Contest 🏆 

Write an article about any topic related to InterSystems technologies from March 14 to April 14, 2022.

   

We're excited about your participation. Join now!

Build up a team and join sending the article made by the team. There will be a bonus for articles made by teams. 

Prizes for everybody: All participants will receive a special prize!

Duration:  from March 14 to April 14, 2022

Prizes

1. All are winners on our 1st InterSystems Portuguese Tech Article Contest! Any member that joins the contest will receive a special prize:

🎁 InterSystems - Developers Community termic bottle 

2. Experts Awards – the articles will be judged by InterSystems experts:

🥇 1st place:  iPad

🥈 2nd place: Gaming Chair

🥉 3rd place:  JBL Gaming Headphone

3. Developers Community Award article with the most likes. The winner will be able to choose one of the following prizes:

🎁 Alexa (echoDot 4)

🎁 Google Chromecast

🎁 Earphone Bluetooth Earbuds Basic Redmi Airdots 2 - Xiaomi 

Important:

  1. The author can only be awarded once per category (in total the author will win 2 prizes: one for Expert and one for the Community)
  2. In the event of a tie, the number of votes of the experts for the tied articles will be considered as a tie-breaking criterion.

Who can participate?

Any Developer Community member, except for InterSystems employees. Create an account!

 

Contest Period

📝 March 14 - April 14: Publication of articles and voting time.  

Publish an article(s) throughout this period. DC members can vote for published articles with Likes – votes in the Community award.

Note: The sooner you publish an article(s), the more time you will have to collect both Experts & Community votes.

🎉 April 25: Winners announcement.

What are the requirements? 

❗️ Any article written during the contest period and satisfying the requirements below will automatically enter the competition:

  • The article must be in Portuguese
  • The article must be related to InterSystems technology
  • It should list the challenges encountered and/or the reason for choosing the theme.
  • It cannot be a translation of an article already published in other communities.
  • The article must be 100% new in the community.
  • Article size: >1,000 characters (links and codes are not counted towards character limit).
  • If the article is written in partnership, the names of the co-authors must be indicated and all must be members of the community. New community members must be registered: Create an account!

What to write about?

❗️  You can choose any tech topic related to InterSystems technology.

🎯 NEW BONUS: If your article is on the topic from the list of the proposed topics, you will receive a bonus of 5 Expert votes (vs 1st place selected by an Expert = 3 votes)

Here're some possible fields for choosing the article topic. These are just examples, you have the liberty to choose anything you want.

 

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Topic

Details

1

Embedded Python Introduction

Use the new functionality available in IRIS 2021.2 that allows you to write SQL methods and procedures in Python.

2

How to do CI/CD with InterSystems IRIS 

3

Change Data Capture with Kafka Connect An example that shows how to set up Kafka Connect and export & import SQL data via the Kafka Connect JDBC connector.

4

Using %MDX and %KPI instead of Subject Area in IRIS Analytics

5

Exporting to Excel using Python

6

Integrating cloud services with productions

Ex.: MS Azure Cognitive Services or Amazon Rekognition.

7

 Working with IKO (InterSystems Kubernetes Operator)

8

InterSystems on the cloud

Bringing the InterSystems Platform to the Cloud

9

High availability of InterSystems environments on K8S

Deploying microservices technology with InterSystems in high availability

10

Data Science shared workgroup setup with ECP

There is a data server and each data scientist has a compute node on their desktop. Show the data is available when disconnected and syncs when you re-connect.

11

Cloud connectors

Write an article on how to use cloud connectors to manage InterSystems IRIS applications on Amazon Webservice and use the connectors to access services.

  • Input and Output Adapters for S3 (Amazon Storage Service)
  • Output Adapter for Cloudwatch (Amazon Monitoring Services)
  • Output Adapter for SNS (Amazon Notification Service) for messaging.

12

HealthShare

How can the InterSystems HealthShare platform help institutions prevent disease and promote people's health?

13

IRIS for Health / FHIR

How can FHIR protocol accelerate healthcare application development?

14

IRIS for Health

How can a healthcare platform help institutions make decisions based on longitudinal patient information?

15

IAM – InterSystems API Manager


Using API Manager to improve service publishing

Note: Articles on the same topic from different authors are allowed.

Feel free to submit your topic ideas in the comments to this post.

🎯 EXTRA BÔNUS:

  • Format of the presentation of the content of the Article: besides publishing the article make an explanatory video (+ 1 vote)
  • The number of features used/described in the article (+ 1 vote)
  • Indication/participation of a person from outside the community in the co-authorship of the Article – with the aim of promoting/disseminating it to other professionals (+ 3 votes)
  • Article with the most comments (+ 2 votes)
  • Article by a new member in the community without partnership (+ 3 votes)
  • Presentation of the architecture (logical model) with the solution/representation of the explored theme (+1 vote)

We're waiting for your great articles!

Good luck!