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InterSystems First Looks

First Looks are brief documents providing hands-on experiences with key InterSystems IRIS® technologies and options. Many can be done on a free evaluation instance; just click TRY IT to learn how to get one! All can be done on a licensed InterSystems IRIS instance.

The InterSystems IRIS documentationOpens in a new tab provides detailed information on all of the topics explored in the First Looks.

Deployment

First Look: InterSystems Cloud Manager

Introduces InterSystems Cloud Manager and shows you how to use it to deploy InterSystems products in a public cloud.

Architecture

First Look: Scaling Systems for User Volume with InterSystems Distributed Caching

Introduces the use of distributed caching enabled by ECP to scale for user volume.

First Look: Deploying an InterSystems Sharded Cluster

Introduces sharding and how it can be used to scale InterSystems-based applications for data volume.

First Look: Data Resiliency and Mirroring

Introduces the crash recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery capabilities of InterSystems products.

Development Environments

InterSystems IRIS Basics: Connecting an IDEOpens in a new tab [TRY ITOpens in a new tab]

Explains how to connect an IDE to an InterSystems IRIS instance.

Java and JDBC

First Look: JDBC and InterSystems Databases [TRY ITOpens in a new tab]

Introduces connecting to InterSystems databases via JDBC: quick facts, a look at shared memory connections, and a chance to try it for yourself.

First Look: Java Object Persistence with XEP [TRY ITOpens in a new tab]

Introduces how to store and retrieve persistent Java objects using the XEP object persistence API: quick facts, a hands-on demo, and comparison with other Java persistence options.

.NET

First Look: ADO.NET and InterSystems Products [TRY ITOpens in a new tab]

Introduces connecting to InterSystems products via the InterSystems ADO.NET Managed Provider.

First Look: .NET Object Persistence with XEP [TRY ITOpens in a new tab]

Introduces how to store and retrieve persistent .NET objects using the XEP object persistence API: quick facts and a hands-on demo.

Embedded Languages

First Look: ObjectScript [TRY ITOpens in a new tab]

Introduces the ObjectScript language and shows how it can be used to access data in multiple ways.

First Look: Globals [TRY ITOpens in a new tab]

Introduces the concept of globals, the underlying storage structure for the InterSystems IRIS data platform.

Interoperability Productions

Security

First Look: LDAP and InterSystems Products [TRY ITOpens in a new tab]

Introduces using an LDAP server to authenticate and assign privileges to users of InterSystems products.

First Look: Database Encryption [TRY ITOpens in a new tab]

Provides a brief, simple, hands-on introduction to InterSystems database encryption tools.

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