InterSystems Developer Ecosystem News, Q4 2024

Hello and welcome to the Developer Ecosystem News, Fourth Quarter!

This last quarter of the year was full of exciting activities in the InterSystems Developer Ecosystem. In case you missed something, we've prepared for you a selection of the hottest news and topics to catch up on!

News

🎇 Developer Community AI: InterSystems IRIS Documentation added

🎆 20,000 members on the InterSystems Developer Community!

🎆 400+ Ideas on the InterSystems Ideas Portal

🎇 Global Masters is back! Launch Date: October 3, 2024

🎊 2024 in Review: Celebrate Your Year with Developer Community!

🎊 Season's Greetings from the Developer Community!

🎊 Global Masters Holiday Cards

💡 InterSystems Ideas News #16 and #17

📝 Notifications & Co-Developers: New on Open Exchange!

📝 Faster Vector Searches with Approximate Nearest Neighbor index -- now available in the Vector Search Early Access Program

📝 InterSystems System Alerting and Monitoring (SAM) to Be Removed

📝 Production Decomposition - CCR Now Allows Source Controlling Individual Production Items

📝 InterSystems Package Manager (IPM) v0.9.0 Beta

👨‍🏫 InterSystems IRIS SQL Specialist Exam is now LIVE!

Contests & Events

🏆 First French Technical Article Contest

🏆 The 2nd InterSystems Japan Technical Writing Contest!

🏆 InterSystems IRIS Technical Tutorial Contest in Portuguese

👨‍💻 InterSystems at HackMIT 2024

👨‍💻 InterSystems at Hack Jak Brno Healthcare Hackathon 2024

🤝 Developer Meetup: Innovating on Health Data [GenAI, FHIR, Data Quality]

🤝 Developer Meetup on Security - October 15, Cambridge, MA

🤝 Developer Meetup on Gen AI, RAG, Hallucinations [Nov 19, Cambridge, MA]

🤝 Japan Developer Community Meetup in Tokyo

🎓 InterSystems DACH Symposium 2024

📺 Webinar in Spanish: ‘Facial recognition applied to application login using JavaScript+IRIS’

📺 Webinar in Spanish: Unifying Data with InterSystems IRIS: Exploring the 'Connect or Collect' Paradigm

📺 [Webinar] Are you and your data AI ready?

📺 Webinar with the winners of the InterSystems IRIS Technical Tutorials Contest

🌐 [LinkedIn Live] Debunking AI Myths with Expert Insights

Latest Releases

⬇️ General Availability of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect 2024.3

⬇️ Maintenance Releases 2023.1.5 & 2024.1.2 of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, & HealthShare HealthConnect are now available

⬇️ First InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect 2025.1 Developer Preview available

⬇️ IPM 0.9.0 Released

Best Practices & Key Questions

❓ Key Questions: September, October, November, December (TBA)

People and Companies to Know About 

👨‍💻 Celebrating a Star of the Developer Community

👨‍💻 Celebrating a Journey of Dedication

💼 Remote: Strong InterSystems HL7, ADT, CCDA to FHIR + IRIS + GCP

💼 IRIS InterSystems Engineer

💼 IRIS experience at CVS Healthcare

So...

Here is our take on the most interesting and important things! 

What were your highlights from this past quarter? Share them in the comments section and let's remember the fun we've had!