Feedback for https://www.intersystems.com/try-intersystems-iris-for-free-2/

[wdbacker]

First feedback points:

• I find it to be a very accessible try out page for IRIS: a new developer only needs to enter his name & email
• the slogan "The Fastest Path to Possible" is not immediately clear to me
• spins up a no-hassle, ready-to-run development environment in the cloud very quickly, you did an excellent job!
• allows you to try out different language bindings: the four most popular languages are in the samples
• the multi-model samples are excellent as a first step: a developer can now get the look & feel very quickly in his development environment of choice (the two most popular ones for new developers - Node.js & Python - are still missing here)
• in the multi-model sample README, you could add how to show the ^AIRPORT global using InterSystem IRIS Terminal and a "do ^%G" to list the global; also add how one can use the Management portal to display the class definition, SQL table & global ^AIRPORT
• add an easy "migration howto" for developers to switch to their own cloud instance on AWS/GCP/Azure using the Community Edition and how to set this up: I assume a new developer will continue developing using their own applications out of the 90-day try-out sandbox
• during testing, my Theia IDE went offline sometimes, but it recovered after some time automatically
• README instructions for dotnet multimodel quickstart are not correct: you don't need to clone, just go to sample dir and issue "dotnet run" (point 1 & 2 do not apply)
• add multi-model quickstarts for Node.js and Python

Anyway, the new try-out page is a huge step forward, great work!

[wdbacker]

One more idea I've been thinking about: maybe you should also add some samples "howto use IRIS" for MongoDB/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/... users - a great opportunity to show the multi-model capabilities of IRIS.

One of the key differentiators e.g. is that you can use a document or object at key/value level directly in contrast to MongoDB working initially more at document level. Such things are key differentiators which make IRIS so outstanding in the current database market.