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Alistair Jones

Director of Engineering, Neo4j

Alistair Jones is an engineer at Neo4j, specializing in clustering and consensus algorithms. He also has a side interest in graph visualization.


Latest Posts by Alistair Jones

Learn how the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities affect Neo4j graph database performance

Meltdown & Spectre: Current Results from Neo4j Performance Testing

As mentioned in our earlier blog post about Meltdown and Spectre, we have been running tests to discover the impact on Neo4j of the patches and workarounds for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. The Neo4j engineering team has now completed a series of tests – in various environments and... read more


Learn how the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities affect the Neo4j graph database

What You Need to Know about How Meltdown and Spectre Affect Neo4j

UPDATE: Please read this blog post for the most up-to-date information about Neo4j performance testing and results affected by Meltdown and Spectre patches. Following the public announcement of the Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715) security vulnerabilities... read more