For those of you that weren't at READY last week, you may have missed the exciting announcement that the Early Access Program for AI Hub is officially open. It was announced during an amazing demo from @Benjamin De Boe and @Jeff Fried, I recommend catching up with this demo when the recording is released! I had the opportunity to play with AI Hub in advance, and thought I might share an introduction with the community.
Today I have published a new Open Exchange package for generation of Synthetic Data directly into IRIS.
It can be a frustrating process to find decent datasets when you are looking to make a demo app. Maybe the dataset doesn't matter that much, but you still want it to appear somewhat genuine and with several linked tables that are usable directly within IRIS with the neat implicit joins with ->. Maybe you just want linked tables that are easily installable with IPM to benchmark queries, this dataset generation would be perfect.
Anyone up for a round of golf?
Are you fed up of making a machine write code for you? Do you miss thinking through problems yourself? Then you are in luck, this round, I propose adding the rule of no AI use. obviously its a game of honor with no prize, so I shan't be enforcing this, but you'll know...
Challenge:
Create a function which takes a string as a parameter, and returns the length of thelongest sequence of alternating consonants and vowels. The sequence is broken by having two vowels or two consonants in a row.
This article explains how to deploy InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on Azure using the Azure Marketplace and a Virtual Machine. It covers prerequisites, instance selection, authentication, SSH access, first verification steps, and how to delete resources to avoid charges. The deployment can typically be done using Azure free credits and is suitable for developers who want to quickly start working with IRIS in the cloud.
Who this guide is for. This guide is intended for developers, solution architects, and DevOps engineers who want to deploy InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on Microsoft Azure. No prior Azure automation experience is required, but basic familiarity with the Azure Portal and SSH is helpful.
After following this guide, you will be able to:
- Launch InterSystems IRIS Community Edition from the Azure Marketplace
- Configure a small, secure Azure VM
- Connect to IRIS using SSH and the Management Portal
- Reset the default IRIS password and verify that IRIS is running
Prerequisites
- An active Azure subscription (new accounts may have free credits)
- Permissions to create resource groups, VMs, and networking resources
- An SSH client and a private key (.pem) you can store securely
- Basic knowledge of Linux command line
Deployment overview
- Open the IRIS Community Edition listing in Azure Marketplace and click Get it now
- In Azure Portal, choose Start with a pre-set configuration (or Create)
- Configure Basics: subscription, resource group, VM name, region, image, and size (a small VM is usually sufficient)
- Choose SSH key authentication and generate/download the key if needed
- Review + Create, accept terms, and deploy; then Go to resource → Connect → SSH
- First SSH login: run
iris passwordto change_SYSTEM/SYS; start a session withiris session iris - Management Portal:
http://YOUR_VM_IP:52773/csp/sys/UtilHome.csp
This article explains how to deploy InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on AWS using the AWS Marketplace and EC2. It covers prerequisites, instance selection, security settings, SSH access, and first verification steps. The deployment can be completed using the AWS Free Tier and is suitable for developers who want to quickly start working with IRIS in the cloud.
Who this guide is for.
This guide is intended for developers, solution architects, and DevOps engineers who want to deploy InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on Amazon Web Services (AWS). No prior AWS automation experience is required, but basic familiarity with EC2 and SSH is helpful.
What you will achieve.
After completing this guide, you will be able to:
- Launch InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on AWS
- Configure a secure EC2 instance
- Connect to IRIS using SSH and the Management Portal
- Verify that IRIS is running correctly
Prerequisites
Before you begin, make sure you have:
- An active AWS account
- Permissions to create EC2 instances and security groups
- An SSH key pair configured in AWS
- Basic knowledge of Linux command line
Deployment overview
The deployment process consists of the following steps:
- Launch IRIS Community Edition from AWS Marketplace
- Select an EC2 instance type
- Configure networking and security
- Connect to the instance via SSH
- Verify IRIS installation
Hi Gang!
Did you know you can deploy InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on the cloud without paying for a license? You can try for free, and it could even come in handy if you want to show off that shiny new app you've created (maybe for the full stack competition..?)
In this article I will provide a complete walkthrough on how to deploy IRIS on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and will also add a follow up for deploying on Azure.
Now before I begin the walkthrough, I want to admit that I was terrified of using AWS the first time because I'd seen memes about how easy it is to rack up costs on AWS. So if you're thinking the same, I suggest you start by signing up to a Free Tier Account, which gives you $100 free credit to evaluate, and automatically shuts off to prevent charges. InterSystems IRIS Community Edition has a free license so if you pair the two, you can deploy without risk and completely for free. (Disclaimer: although I'm sure this is true, please do read the free account terms and make your own decisions 😅 )
Note, this article walks through deploying IRIS Community on AWS, however the same guide can be followed to deploy IRIS for Health Community Edition, or with Bring-your-own-licence editions of IRIS and IRIS for Health, to deploy a fully licensed, production version of IRIS on AWS.
Introduction
Earlier this year, I set about creating kit to introduce young techy folk at a Health Tech hackathon to using InterSystems IRIS for health, particularly focusing on using FHIR and vector search.
I wanted to publish this to the developer community because the tutorials included in the kit make a great introduction to using FHIR and to building a basic RAG system in IRIS.
Hi Everyone,
As I'm sure most of you will be aware, we have an excellent resource available to developers in the Open Exchange, which is a place for Community Members to share open source resources, templates, tools and demos built with or for InterSystems technologies. This has been a massive success, with >1100 projects shared!
However, the growing size of the Open Exchange inevitably leads to some excellent resources being buried and lost in the sea of resources.