Technology Bonuses for the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2024

Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2024 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• IRIS Vector Search usage -3
• Embedded Python usage -3
• WSGI Web Apps - 2
• InterSystems Interoperability - 3
• InterSystems IRIS BI - 3
• Docker container usage -2 
• ZPM Package Deployment - 2
• Online Demo -2 
• Implement InterSystems Community Idea - 4
• Find a bug in Embedded Python - 2
• Code Quality pass - 1
• Article on Developer Community - 2
• The second article on Developer Community - 1
• Video on YouTube - 3
• YouTube Short - 1
• First Time Contribution - 3

See the details below.

IRIS Vector Search - 3 points

Starting from 2024.1 release InterSystems IRIS contains a new technology vector search that allows to build vectors over InterSystems IRIS data and perform search of already indexed vectors. Use it in your solution and collect 5 bonus points. Here is the demo project that leverages it.

Embedded Python - 3 points

Use Embedded Python in your application and collect 3 extra points. You'll need at least InterSystems IRIS 2021.2 for it.

WSGI Web Apps - 2 points

The 2024.1 InterSystems IRIS release goes with an experimental feuture that allows to deploy WSGI Web Apps for IRIS. Take a look at three example applications for flask, fast-api and django to deploy IRIS apps with WSGI support.

InterSystems Interoperability - 3 points

Make a tool to enhance developer experience or to maintain or monitor or use the InterSystems Interoperability engine.Inteoperability tool example. Interoperability adapter example.  Basic Interoperability template.  Python Interoperability template.

InterSystems IRIS BI - 3 points

Develop a tool that improves the developer experience or uses InterSystems IRIS BI feature of IRIS Platform. Examples: DeepSeeWeb, IRIS BI Utils, AnalyzeThis. IRIS BI Analytics template.

Docker container usage - 2 points

The application gets a 'Docker container' bonus if it uses InterSystems IRIS  running in a docker container. Here is the simplest template to start from.

ZPM Package deployment - 2 points

You can collect the bonus if you build and publish the ZPM(ObjectScript Package Manager) package for your Full-Stack application so it could be deployed with:

zpm "install your-multi-model-solution"

command on IRIS with ZPM client installed. 

ZPM client. Documentation.

Online Demo of your project - 2 points
Collect 3 more bonus points if you provision your project to the cloud as an online demo. You can do it on your own or you can use this template - here is an Example. Here is the video on how to use it.

Implement Community Opportunity Idea - 4 points

Implement any related to developer tools idea from the InterSystems Community Ideas portal which has the "Community Opportunity" status. This will give you 4 additional bonus points.

Find a bug in Embedded Python - 2 points
We want the broader adoption of InterSystems Embedded python, so we encourage you to report the bugs you will face during the development of your python application with IRIS in order to fix it. Please submit the bug here in a form of issue and how to reproduce it. You can collect 2 bonus points for the first reproducible bug.

Code quality pass with zero bugs - 1 point

Include the code quality Github action for code static control and make it show 0 bugs for ObjectScript. 

Article on Developer Community - 2 points

Write a brand new article on Developer Community that describes the features of your project and how to work with it. Collect 2 points for the article. 
*This bonus is subject to the discretion of the experts whose decision is final. 

The Second article on Developer Community - 1 point

You can collect one more bonus point for the second article or the translation of the first article. The second article should go into detail about a feature of your project. The 3rd and more articles will not bring more points, but the attention will be all yours. 
*This bonus is subject to the discretion of the experts whose decision is final.

Video on YouTube - 3 points

Make the Youtube video that demonstrates your product in action and collect 3 bonus points per each. Examples.

YouTube Short - 1 point

Make a YouTube Short demonstrating your product in action and collect 1 bonus point each.

First-Time Contribution - 3 points

Collect 3 bonus points if you participate in InterSystems Open Exchange contests for the first time!

The list of bonuses is subject to change. Stay tuned!

Good luck with the competition!