InterSystems Tech Article Contest
Hey Developers,
Are you ready for the new challenge? We're pleased to announce the first InterSystems technical article writing competition:
🏆 InterSystems Tech Article Contest 🏆
Write an article on any topic related to InterSystems technology from July 15 to August 15 August 22 – extended!
Prizes for everyone: Everyone who publishes an article on DC during this period will receive a special prize pack!
Main Prize: Apple iPad
Join our new contest and your content will be seen by over 55K monthly readers! Details below.
Prizes
1. Everyone is a winner in InterSystems Tech Article Contest! Any user who writes an article during the competition period will receive special prizes:
🎁 unique Developer Community Hoody
🎁 InterSystems sticker
2. Expert Awards – articles will be judged by InterSystems experts:
🥇 1st place: Apple iPad 128GB
🥈 2nd place: Amazon Kindle 8G Paperwhite
🥉 3rd place: Nike Utility Speed Backpack
Or as an alternative: Raspberry Pi 4 8GB with InterSystems IRIS Community Edition ARM installed
3. Developer Community Award – article with the most likes. The winner will have an option to choose one from the following prizes:
🎁 Nike Utility Speed Backpack
🎁 Amazon Kindle 8G Paperwhite
🎁 Raspberry Pi 4 8GB with InterSystems IRIS Community Edition ARM installed
Who can participate?
Any Developer Community member, except for InterSystems employees. Create an account!
Contest Period
📝 July 15 - August 22: Publication of articles on the Community 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 Likes.
🎉 August 23: 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 related to InterSystems technology
- The article must be in English
- The article must be 100% new (it can be a continuation of an existing article)
- The article should not be plagiarized or translated (translations of your own DC articles from another language are allowed)
- Article size: >1,000 characters
- Team size: individual (multiple entries from the same author are allowed)
What to write about?
❗️ You can choose any tech topic related to InterSystems technology.
Here're some possible fields for choosing the article topic. These are just examples, you have the liberty to choose anything you want.
# | Topic | Details |
1 | Embedded Python Introduction | Embedded Python is an exciting new feature of InterSystems IRIS allowing developers to write methods, SQL procedures and more in Python. |
2 | Embedded Python from Interoperability | Explore how Embedded Python can be leveraged from an Interoperability production. |
3 | Embedded Python: Translating by Language Constructs | While we aim for seamless Embedded Python integration there are some tips & tricks to smooth things over. Underscore methods, dictionaries, lists and others. What are the best ways of calling Python features from ObjectScript? |
4 | Intro to InterSystems Reports Designer |
Continuation of this article. This article should cover:
A good tutorial to start with: Getting Started with InterSystems Reports |
5 | Calling Reports from Interoperability/IRIS | An article describing how to execute (and get) InterSystems Reports Report from IRIS on from Interoperability Production. |
6 | Map Reports with InterSystems | An article describing how to build InterSystems Reports Report with geospatial data. HoleFoods dataset contains locations for transactions which you can use. |
7 | How to do CI/CD with InterSystems IRIS | – |
8 | Change Data Capture with Kafka Connect | An example that shows how to set up Kafka Connect and export&import SQL data via the Kafal Connect JDBC connector. |
9 | Applying analytics / ML to the SQL Statement Index | – |
10 | My favourite maintenance tasks, automated | – |
11 | Leveraging the Audit database | – |
12 | The three steps to set up GitHub Actions that make your app invincible | – |
13 | OAuth2 authorization in IRIS instance | – |
14 | Setup mirroring on K8s | – |
15 | Using %MDX and %KPI instead of Subject Area in IRIS Analytics | – |
16 | Trying External Language Gateways / compare to the gateways of old | Example |
17 | Streaming events to Kafka from IAM | – |
18 | IntegratedML walkthrough | – |
19 | Exporting requests to Excel using Python | – |
20 | Integrating cloud services with productions | e.g. MS Azure Cognitive Services or Amazon Rekognition. |
21 | Working with IKO | – |
22 | IKO IRIS on AWS Kubernetes with Hugepages | – |
23 | Incorporating backups with IKO | – |
24 | IKO – Create a cluster with compute nodes, SAM, and no sharding | Include the CPF file to set up our best practices. |
25 | 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-connec. |
26 | Article discussing storage options for cloud deployments (performance difference between local storage, block storage, etc) and trade-offs (you might not need mirrors if using block storage, etc.) | – |
27 | Building IRIS images with Docker Build Mounts | Details |
28 | InterSystems IRIS CUDA image | There's a way to use GPUs/CUDA from inside the container. Describe how to build an InterSystems IRIS image with CUDA support. |
Note: Articles on the same topic from different authors are allowed.
Feel free to submit your topic ideas in the comments to this post.
So,
We're waiting for your great articles!
Good luck and let the power of Pulitzer be with you! ✨