Introduction

In the first article, a simple tutorial helped you to set up your FHIRaaS deployment.

Now, let's move forward and introduce a JS library to access the FHIR resource.

In the end, two examples of usage of this library will be presented, exploring the Appointment FHIR resource type.

SMART on FHIR JavaScript Library

FHIR is a REST API, so you can use any HTTP client in order to use it. But, it’s always a good idea to have help.

Furthermore, there is a cool initiative called SMART which aims to provide standards for easy access to health data stored over health systems.

Hey Community,

Please join the next InterSystems online programming competition:

🏆 InterSystems FHIR Accelerator Programming Contest 🏆

Submit an application that uses InterSystems FHIR-as-a-service on AWS or helps to develop solutions using InterSystems IRIS FHIR Accelerator.

Duration: May 10 - June 06, 2021

Total prize: $8,750 

👉  Landing page 👈

All source code to the article is available at: https://github.com/antonum/ha-iris-k8s 

In the previous article, we discussed how to set up IRIS on k8s cluster with high availability, based on the distributed storage, instead of traditional mirroring. As an example, that article used the Azure AKS cluster. In this one, we'll continue to explore highly available configurations on k8s. This time, based on Amazon EKS (AWS managed Kubernetes service) and would include an option for doing database backup and restore, based on Kubernetes Snapshot.

Installation

Let's get right to business.

Hi colleagues!

Often when we collaborate to someone's repo in GitHub we do the following cycle:

Fork-Clone-Change-Commit-Push-Pull-Request-Merge to the original repo.

This is all great and works fine!

And if we want to make a second collaboration right after the merge you need to perform "Fetch upstream" to your forked repo first to "ingest" your own Pull-request in the original repo.

Geeky git-professionals do it with ease but this was always a headache for me so I usually simply deleted the fork and created a new one.

And today I figured that Github added a new UI feature that I can easily fetch-upstream for my fork with the original one and make it up to date and capable for pull-requests.

Here is where the button is:

This is a relief! )

Wanted to share this relief and productivity tip with you!

Bring more collaborations to Github repos!

And speaking of PR - I just made a PR with docker to Google Cloud Run deployment for the FHIRaaS demo made by @Anton Umnikov for the current FHIR Contest! Looking for more of your contributions!

Hey developers,

The registration period for the FHIR Accelerator programming contest is in full swing! We invite all FHIR developers to build new or test existing applications using the InterSystems IRIS FHIR Accelerator Service (FHIRaaS) on AWS. 

And now you have a great opportunity to get FREE access to the FHIRaaS on AWS! So, to take the first step in mastering the FHIRaaS, you need to register on our FHIR Portal using this link:

👉🏼 https://portal.trial.isccloud.io/account/signup

Hi Community,

We're pleased to invite you to the online meetup with the winners of the InterSystems Developer Tools contest!

Date & Time: Friday, April 30, 2021 – 11:00 EDT

What awaits you at this Virtual Meetup? 

• Our winners' bios.
• Short demos on their applications.
• An open discussion about technologies being used, bonuses, questions. Plans for the next contests.

Hi Community,

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

On this webinar, we will talk and demo how to use InterSystems IRIS FHIR Accelerator as a service.

Date & Time: Monday, May 10 — 01:00 PM EDT

Speakers:  
🗣 @Evgeny Shvarov, InterSystems Developer Ecosystem Manager
🗣 @Regilo Regilio Guedes de Souza, InterSystems Service Executive
🗣 @Anton Umnikov, InterSystems Senior Cloud Solution Architect
🗣 @Patrick Jamieson, InterSystems Product Manager - Health Informatics Platform

Hey developers,

We want to hear from you! Give us your feedback on the past InterSystems Developer Tools Contest! Please answer some questions to help us improve our contests.

👉 Quick survey: InterSystems Developer Tools Contest Survey

I'm just starting off with ZPM and noticed that examples of library-type packages and full applications abound, but I have not unearthed any that demonstrate packaging an interop production. It doesn't seem like it would be too big of a jump from a full application to an interop production, but that is likely ignorance speaking.

So, does anybody know if this is possible/advisable -- or if I am just way off on the intent of ZPM?

Thanks!

Hey community,

The InterSystems Developer Tools contest is over. Thank you all for participating in our exciting coding marathon!

And now it's time to announce the winners! 

A storm of applause goes to these developers and their applications:

Hi Developers,

Enjoy watching this new video presented by @Evgeny Shvarov:

⏯ Package First Development Approach with InterSystems IRIS and ZPM

An interesting thing about data is that we can always discover something new.

And with this concept in mind, we create a new page to show a little bit inside the world of ZPM!

Hey Developers,

This week is a voting week for the InterSystems Developer Tools programming contest! So, it's time to give your vote to the best solutions built with InterSystems IRIS.

🔥 You decide: VOTING IS HERE 🔥

How to vote and what's new?

gj :: connect is a demonstration extension that shows how to extend the Intersystems Server Manager to perform custom actions.

It makes use of the context menu contribution points to add both in-line and right click menu options.

It also demonstrates how to create a new top level folder in your workspace corresponding to the server and namespace selected in Server Manager.

You may think it isn’t too difficult to get from label+offset^routine to the actual source line responsible for the error.  For an expert it isn't that hard... most of the time.  But there are enough oddities and special rules that even an expert can get it wrong, whilst spending a lot of time trying to get there.

gj :: locate is the latest tool from George James Software – it debugs any error, class or routine by converting the location of an error in compiled .int code to the corresponding location in your source, and then taking you right there.

Image this scenario…

Hey Developers,

You asked - we did it! We're glad to announce the next competition for InterSystems Developers! Please welcome: 

🏆 InterSystems Programming Contest: Developer Tools 🏆

Submit an application that helps to develop faster, contribute more qualitative code, helps in testing, deployment, support, or monitoring of your solution with InterSystems IRIS.

Duration: March 29 - April 25, 2021

Total prize: $8,500 

Hi Developers,

Please welcome the new video specially recorded for Developer Tools programming contest: 

⏯ Deploying InterSystems IRIS docker solutions to GKE cloud in 5 minutes

Hi developers!

We are glad to share what we have new in April Open Exchange release:

• Promo section for companies admins 
• Pagination for applications catalogue
• New application submission flow

Hi Community!

We are pleased to invite all the developers to the upcoming InterSystems Contest Kick-off Webinar dedicated to the InterSystems Programming Contest: Developer Tools!

In this webinar, we'll talk about the topics to expect from participants and show you how to develop, build and deploy applications on InterSystems IRIS data platform.

Date & Time: Monday, March 29 — 11:00 AM EDT

Speakers:  
🗣 @Evgeny Shvarov, InterSystems Developer Ecosystem Manager
🗣  @Raj Singh, InterSystems Product Manager - Developer Experience
🗣  @Bob Kuszewski, InterSystems Product Manager - Developer Experience

Hi Developers!

Recently we released the updated version 0.1.3 of ObjectScript Package Manager (ZPM) which comes with the support of simplified ObjectScript sources folder structure.

What 'simplified' does mean?

Before 0.1.3 ZPM expected the following structure:

/src

---/cls  - for ObjectScript classes

---/cls/package_name/class_name.cls

---/cls/package_name/class_name2.cls

---/mac - or Mac ObjectScript routines

---/mac/package_name/mac_routine.mac

---/mac/package_name/mac_routine2.mac

---/inc - for ObjectScript macro include files.

---/inc/package_name/include_file.inc

Hi Community,

Please welcome the new video recorded by @Robert Cemper on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ IRIS easy ECP workbench

Hi Developers!

Many of you publish your InterSystems ObjectScript libraries on Open Exchange and Github.

But what do you do to ease the usage and collaboration to your project for developers?

In this article, I want to introduce the way how to introduce an easy way to launch and contribute to any ObjectScript project just by copying a standard set of files to your repository.

Let's go!

Hi Developers,

Please welcome the new voting rules for the InterSystems programming contests!

See details below: 

Hello, authors of projects published in ZPM.

We ask you to add a module.xml to the file. attribute Description and republish your projects.

To update the description of your module in the public register ZPM, update the release in Open Exchange please. https://openexchange.intersystems.com/markdown?url=assets%2Fdoc%2Freleases.md Thanks.

Hey Developers!

We have great news for InterSystems IRIS developers! We're pleased to invite you all to join our annual competition of creating open-source solutions using InterSystems IRIS! Please welcome:

🏆 InterSystems Grand Prix Programming Contest🏆

Duration: February 8 - March 8, 2021

Total prize: $16,000 

Hi Community,

We're pleased to invite you to the online meetup with the winners of the InterSystems Grand Prix Contest!

Date & Time: Friday, March 12, 2021 – 10:00 EDT

What awaits you at this virtual Meetup? 

• Our winners' bios.
• Short demos on their applications.
• An open discussion about technologies being used, bonuses, questions. Plans for the next contests.

Hi Developers,
We want to know what you like about Open Exchange and how we can make it better in 2021. Could you please go through this short survey which will let us know what do you think.

➡️ Open Exchange Survey 2020 (3 minutes, 10 questions)

Your answers are very important to us!
Sincerely,
Your InterSystems Developer Community Team