Technology Bonuses for the InterSystems Python Contest 2024

Hi Developers!

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

• IRIS Vector Search usage - 3
• Python Pex Interoperability - 3
• Python in BPL - 2
• WSGI Web Apps - 2
• Python libs: sqlalchemy and dbt - 2
• LLM AI or LangChain usage: Chat GPT, Bard and others - 3
• NoObjectScriptLine - 3
• Hugginface - 2
• Docker container usage - 2 
• ZPM Package deployment - 2
• Online Demo - 2
• Implement InterSystems Community Idea - 4
• Find a bug in Embedded Python - 2
• First Article on Developer Community - 2
• Second Article On DC - 1
• First Time Contribution - 3
• Video on YouTube - 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.

Python Pex Interoperability - 3 points

InterSystems IRIS has Python Pex Interoperability module that provides the option to develop InterSystems Interoperability productions from Python. Use it and collect 3 extra points for your application. It's OK also to use alternative python.pex wheel introduced by Guillaume Ronguier in this project and template.

Python in BPL - 2 points

While building IRIS Interoperability productions it is possible to code BPL in with python now. Use it in your application and collect 2 extra bonus points! See the release notes. Example.

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.

Python libs: sqlalchemy and dbt - 2

Use sqlachemy and dbt for IRIS community libs and collect 2 additional bonus points for each.

LLM AI or LangChain usage: Chat GPT, Bard and others - 3 points

Collect 6 bonus expert points for building a solution that uses LangChain libs or Large Language Models (LLM) such as ChatGPT, Bard and other AI engines like PaLM, LLaMA and more. AutoGPT usage counts too.

A few examples already could be found in Open Exchange: iris-openai, chatGPT telegram bot.

Here is an article with langchain usage example.

Pure Python(NoObjectScriptLine) - 3 points

We are introducing several python APIs in this contest! And the bonus is yet another challenge: build your python solution with InterSystems IRIS and try to avoid using even a line of ObjectScript! IRIS Classes with only Embedded Python methods are OK though. Do it and collect 4 bonus points more!

Here is a template that demonstrates how you can use IRIS without a line of ObjectScript. Yes, it contains ObjectScript classes for demo purpose but you can delete it in your app.

HuggingFace - 2

Deploy your solution at the hugging face repository and collect 2 extra points. Example.

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(InterSystems 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 2 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 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.

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.

The Second article on Developer Community - 1 point

You can collect one more bonus point for the second article or the translation regarding the application. The 3rd and more will not bring more points but the attention will all be yours.

First Time Contribution - 3 points

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

Video on YouTube - 3 points

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

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

Good luck in the competition!