2023 Issue #3 - July

This is a recurring newsletter of content around Ballerina and related technology topics such as integration, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud computing.
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New YouTube series

Introducing our latest training series, where Ballerina team members dive deep into the fascinating realms of the Ballerina programming language. Whether you're a seasoned programmer or just starting your coding journey, these training videos cater to all skill levels and provide you with a comprehensive understanding of Ballerina.

First, we have Shafreen Anfar and Ayesh Almeida demonstrating how to integrate using Ballerina. These videos will help you learn and apply Ballerina for integration scenarios.

Next, we have Gimantha Bandara illustrating how to convert XML to Ballerina records. Gimantha will cover various use cases related to XML manipulation throughout his playlist.

Finally, Asma Jabir explores how you can seamlessly manage packages with Ballerina.

Stay tuned for our next set of videos!

Latest release

Ballerina 2201.7.0 (Swan Lake Update 7)

One of the significant highlights of Ballerina Swan Lake Update 7 includes a new set of features and significant improvements to the compiler, runtime, standard library, and developer tooling. It is based on the 2023R1 version of the Language Specification. Click here to read the release note.

Upcoming events

Ballerina Tech Talk - Persist with precision: Mastering data persistence with bal persist

Thursday, July 13, 2023 | 9.00 a.m. IST

Join Ballerina team member, Danesh Kuruppu at the next Tech Talk, where he will provide an overview of the new bal persist feature. Click here to RSVP and secure your spot.

Past events

Ballerina Tech Talk | Unleash the Power of AI with Ballerina

During our last Tech Talk, Ballerina AI team member Jayani Hewavitharana provided an overview and a demo of the power of AI within Ballerina. Missed it? Watch the recording here.

Women in Tech Global Conference

Ballerina team member, Anupama Pathirage, demonstrated how to use Ballerina’s built-in cloud support to go from code to the cloud at the Women in Tech Global Conference. Click here to watch the recording.

Exercism’s Mind Shifting May

Ballerina team members Imesha Sudasinghe, Malintha Ranasinghe, Lakshan Weerasinghe, and Hinduja Balasubramaniam were all guest speakers on Exercism’s live stream for Mind Shifting May, which explored programming languages that take their approach and make you think differently. You can watch all the recordings below.

• How to leverage Ballerina's unique syntaxes
• Ballerina for integration
• Ballerina for consuming and creating services effortlessly
• Concurrency abstractions in Ballerina

Featured articles

Unleash the power of AI: Develop a question and answering service with OpenAI and Ballerina

In this article, Jayani Hewavitharana from the Ballerina AI Team shows us how to build a question-answering service using Ballerina. The article explores using the latest connectors for Open AI and Pinecone vector database connectors.

Business-to-business (B2B) integration with Ballerina

Ballerina team member Chathura Ekanayake’s article provides a detailed overview of Ballerina's capabilities and potential for facilitating seamless integration between businesses. He highlights the challenges businesses face when integrating their systems with external partners, such as varying data formats, protocol inconsistencies, and complex workflows, Chathura introduces Ballerina as a language designed to address these challenges and streamline B2B integration.

Errors and error handling in Ballerina - Part II - Error subtypes

Maryam Ziyad from the Ballerin team explores the concept of error subtypes in Ballerina and other related concepts. Error subtypes provide a mechanism to categorize and handle errors more effectively, enabling developers to write cleaner and more maintainable code.

Ballerina Identifiers: A simple guide for new developers

If you’re new to coding, check out this beginner-friendly guide on Ballerina identifiers by Ballerina team member Hasitha Aravinda. Learn how to create meaningful names for variables and functions, and dive into the world of clean and readable code with Ballerina identifiers.

Latest use case: Ballerina for healthcare

Ballerina is the only integration language built for healthcare. With its native support for healthcare standards like FHIR, HL7, and X12, Ballerina enables rapid health tech application development. Read more here.

Featured tweets

This edition highlights Anjana S Porawagama, Summaya Ziyad, and John A De Goes for showing us how they use Ballerina. Thanks again for your support!

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