InterSystems READY 2025: Operationalizing Cyber Security
Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Ken Mortensen, InterSystems Data Protection Officer, outlined the initiative to operationalize cybersecurity and the privacy council, with Paul Bruce, InterSystems Senior Manager – Cloud Security Operations, focusing on security program development across cloud, product, and incident response. Mortensen and Bruce emphasized a shift towards practical implementation guided by […]
InterSystems READY 2025: InterSystems Cloud Core Architecture
Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Rick Guidice and Jorge Martinez-Alba, InterSystems Cloud Engineers, presented an overview of InterSystems Cloud Core Architecture (ICCA), a cloud-native platform for managing cloud services using containerization with IKO and Kubernetes. The architecture includes a user portal, API gateways, external connection support, data import capabilities, and a management plane […]
InterSystems READY 2025: Source Controlling Interoperability
Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Pravin Barton, InterSystems Principal Application Developer, presented a demo on production decomposition, a new method that utilizes individual PTD files for each production item to improve source control and collaboration by avoiding bottlenecks associated with a single large class representation. The demonstration covered switching to the decomposed format […]
InterSystems READY 2025: Making SQL Aggregates up to 35% Faster
Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Elie Eshoa, InterSystems Systems Developer, outlined a project to optimize the aggregation of group by queries by improving parallel processing for average, minimum, and maximum operations. The old sequential parent process bottleneck is addressed by a new approach, where worker processes directly write results in parallel to a […]
InterSystems READY 2025: Automated Provisioning and Management of FHIR Servers
Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Jaideep Majumdar, InterSystems Development Manager, presented new REST APIs for FHIR management, distinct from data access APIs, which enable users to provision, customize, delete, and retrieve information about FHIR servers. The presentation covered creating and updating servers, managing background jobs, handling custom packages and data loading, and included […]
InterSystems READY 2025: IRIS Automation Using Ansible
Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Murray Oldfield, InterSystems Principal Technology Architect, presented Ansible as a tool for automating complex system deployments, emphasizing its use in environments like HealthShare by creating focused playbooks. He detailed a typical deployment workflow, declarative configuration management via playbooks, and the organization of hosts and variables within Ansible’s inventory. […]