Hi Developers,

We are pleased to invite you all to the new InterSystems online programming contest focused on Python! 

🏆 InterSystems Python Programming Contest 🏆

Duration: September 4 - 24, 2023

Prize pool: $14,000

InterSystems Announces General Availability of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect 2025.1

The 2025.1 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS^® for Health^TM, and HealthShare^® Health Connect is now Generally Available (GA). This is an Extended Maintenance (EM) release.

Hey Developers,

We are pleased to invite you all to the next InterSystems online programming contest focused on Python! 

🏆 InterSystems Python Contest 🏆

Duration: February 7 - 27, 2022

In prizes: $10K - more prizes included!

Python is 31 today ; let’s celebrate it 🎂 

And special thanks to Guido van Rossum 

Hey Developers,

We're pleased to announce the next InterSystems online programming competition: 

🏆 InterSystems AI Programming Contest 🏆

Duration: June 28 - July 25, 2021

Total prize: $8,750 

Landing page: https://contest.intersystems.com

Hi Developers,

Get a preview of the upcoming Embedded Python feature of InterSystems IRIS:

⏯ Embedded Python in InterSystems IRIS: Sneak Peek

Hey Developers,

Enjoy watching the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube channel:

⏯ What is Embedded Python

Welcome to day 3 of Virtual Summit 2021!  We have incredible content available to you this year and I'd just like to bring your attention to the 4(!) sessions that we have on Embedded Python.

• Introduction to Embedded Python - What is Embedded Python and Why is it awesome
• Embedded Python for ObjectScript developers - A technical deep dive into using Python and ObjectScript together inside IRIS
• Embedded Python with Interoperability - Covers how to use Embedded Python to create your own custom interoperability components.

Embedded Python is about to get a whole lot more powerful, and we’re looking for a few volunteers to give it a try.

What’s the Flexible Python Runtime?

The Flexible Python Runtime option allows you to use a Python runtime of your choosing with Embedded Python. Previous to this, you could only use the operating system's default Python, which was limiting especially for customers using the latest and greatest AI & ML tools close to their data.

When InterSystems introduced Embedded Python in InterSystems IRIS in 2021.

Hi Developers!

We have great new articles for your to read and enjoy, thanks to our wonderful participants of the 3rd InterSystems Tech Article Contest: Python Edition!

🌟 12 AMAZING ARTICLES 🌟

And now it's time to announce the winners!

Let's meet the winners and their articles:

For several years now Visual Studio Code has supported the notebook coding paradigm with a maturing UX and an API that is enabling a notebook extensions ecosystem to grow. One of the best-known notebook platforms is Jupyter Notebooks. A Microsoft team publishes an extension that allows VS Code to handle .ipynb notebook files. These can either work against a local Python environment or connect to a Jupyter Server, which typically hosts remote Python environments with beefier resources.

What if your InterSystems IRIS environments, whether local on your workstation or remote in your organization / cloud, could operate as Jupyter Servers? And not only for Embedded Python but also for ObjectScript and SQL

"If we build it, will they come?"

I think it's a known fact that Populate Utility has very limited functionality. It supports only one language and one country. The list of possible values does not have so many options. 

There is a kind of tool that now can help with it, named Faker. It has implementations in different languages, including Python. Since IRIS has now had the Embedded Python feature, Python faker can be implemented in IRIS.

You can learn a lot from a first impression; we want to hear about yours.

As a continuation of our User Insights Interview program (see this post for more details), we’re expanding our scope to include Python developers, particularly those of you who are new to working with InterSystems technology. We’re looking to conduct one-on-one interviews to hear your honest thoughts about getting started: What made sense, what didn’t, and where we could improve.

Interested in sharing your thoughts? Sign up to participate here.

Hi Community,

We're pleased to invite all the developers to the upcoming InterSystems AI Contest Kick-Off Webinar! The topic of this webinar is dedicated to the InterSystems AI programming contest.

During the webinar, we will demo how to load data into IRIS, how to deal with it using ODBC/JDBC and REST, and how to use special AI/ML features of IRIS: IntegratedML, DataRobot, R Gateway, Embedded Python, PMML.

Date & Time: Monday, June 28 — 11:00 AM EDT

Speakers:  
🗣 @Aleksandar Kovacevic, InterSystems Sales Engineer
🗣 @Théophile Thierry, InterSystems Intern
🗣 @Bob Kuszewski, Product Manager - Developer Experience, InterSystems  
🗣 @Evgeny Shvarov, InterSystems Developer Ecosystem Manager

Hi Community,

We are excited to announce that InterSystems Developers Meetups are finally back in person!

The first Python-related meetup will take place on July 21 at 6:00 at Democracy Brewing, Boston, MA. There will be 2-3 short presentations related to Python, Q&A, networking sessions as well as free beer with snacks and brewery tours.

AGENDA:

Hi Community, 

Let's meet virtually at our Third Community Roundtable! This will be a 60-min discussion on a given topic: Developing with Python. 

Register through >> this Global Masters challenge << 

UPDATE: the roundtable recording is available here.

Hi Community,

We're pleased to invite you to the upcoming webinar in Hebrew: 

👉 Leveraging Embedded Python in Hebrew 👈

🗓️ Date & time: September 12th, 3:00 PM IDT

Hi Developers, 

New video is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube: 

⏯ Embedded Python for ObjectScript Developers: Working with Python and ObjectScript Side-By-Side

Hey Developers,

Watch this video to learn how to use Embedded Python using applications from the Open Exchange app gallery:

⏯ Embedded Python Use Cases @ Global Summit 2023

Hi Community,

See how the new embedded Python feature enables you to write user-defined SQL functions and stored procedures in Python:

⏯ Embedding Python in SQL: Write Your Stored Procedures in Python

Hi Community,

We are pleased to invite all the developers to the upcoming InterSystems Python Contest Kick-off Webinar! The topic of this webinar is dedicated to the Python contest.

In this webinar, we’ll present two templates to start working with Embedded Python :

1. What is Embedded Python and Jupyter;
2. Embedded Python with Interoperability (PEX hacked to use Embedded Python).

As always, our experts will answer the questions on how to develop, build, and deploy Python solutions using InterSystems IRIS.

Date & Time: Monday, February 7 – 12:00 PM EDT

Speakers:
🗣 @Guillaume Rongier, InterSystems Sales Engineer  
🗣 @Bob Kuszewski, InterSystems Product Manager
🗣 @Evgeny Shvarov, InterSystems Developer Ecosystem Manager

Hi Community,

We are pleased to invite you to the next InterSystems online programming contest, which is focused on Python!

🏆 InterSystems Python Contest 🏆

Duration: July 15 - August 4, 2024

Prize pool: $14,000

Hey Developers, 

Please welcome the first session from the InterSystems Virtual Summit 2021:

⏯ Introduction to Embedded Python

Hi Community, 

New video is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Embedded Python with Interoperability

Hello Everyone,

The Certification Team of InterSystems Learning Services is developing an InterSystems IRIS Developer Professional certification exam, and we are reaching out to our community for feedback that will help us evaluate and establish the contents of this exam.

Note: This exam will replace the current InterSystems IRIS Core Solutions Developer Specialist exam when it is released. Please note from the target role description below that the focus of the new exam will be more on developer best practices and a lot less on the ObjectScript programming language.

How do I provide my input?

Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Globals in Embedded Python for Dummies

Hi Developers!

Here is the bonus results for the applications in InterSystems Python Programming Contest 2023:

Hi Developers!

Here're the technology bonuses for the InterSystems Vector Search, GenAI, and ML contest 2024 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• Vector Search usage - 5
• IntegratedML usage - 3
• Embedded Python - 3
• LLM AI or LangChain usage: Chat GPT, Bard, and others - 3
• Questionnaire - 2
• Docker container usage - 2 
• ZPM Package deployment - 2
• Online Demo - 2
• Implement InterSystems Community Idea - 4
• Find a bug in Vector Search, or Integrated ML, or Embedded Python - 2
• First Article on Developer Community - 2
• Second Article On DC - 1
• First Time Contribution - 3
• Video on YouTube - 3
• Suggest a new idea - 1

See the details below.

Hey Developers,

Start watching the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Using Embedded Python as a Jupyter Notebook Server @ Global Summit 2023

Hi all - we just released the first episode of Season 2 for our Data Points podcast by Learning Services. This episode features a conversation with @Bob Kuszewski about Embedded Python. If you're a Python developer, or if you're simply interested in the functionality, check it out! For more information, head over to https://datapoints.intersystems.com.