Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Jun 26
8 mins read
Base Photo by Compare Fibre on UnsplashAs we prepare for NODES 2023, I wanted to pull out the time machine and review the Java sessions from NODES 2022. I will be submitting some abstracts to the 2023 Call for Proposal here soon, likely in the Java category, so I thought looking at last... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Nov 14, 2022
6 mins read
Mark Heckler is Principal Cloud Developer Advocate for Java/JVM Languages at Microsoft. He is a conference speaker, Java Champion, and Kotlin Developer Expert focused on developing innovative production-ready software at velocity for cloud and edge computing platforms. Mark has worked with... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Nov 14, 2022
9 mins read
See “Of Farm Topologies and Time-Series Data” with data analyst and engineer Christoph Engelbert, live during Neo4j’s NODES 2022 live streaming webcast at 1420 GMT / 1520 CET Thursday, November 17. Registration for the 24-hour live, worldwide event is free. Christoph Engelbert, the... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Nov 02, 2022
9 mins read
As the Vice President of Data Science for a major IT firm, Dr. Kateryna Nesvit, Ph.D. architected a data science platform that predicts the appropriate levels of talent compensation for more than 15,000 IT companies. For 11 years, she has taught university courses in applied and computational... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
May 04, 2022
6 mins read
Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash In our world today, we seem to encounter crises and global struggles on a daily basis. But what if we could help others and improve life around us using the data and technology at our fingertips?Graph databases like Neo4j help us do exactly that. By... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Apr 26, 2022
3 mins read
A new course is available on GraphAcademy for Building Neo4j Applications with Java! Michael Hunger and I collaborated to create a hands-on course that starts with a project skeleton and guides users through writing code to build a completed IMDB-clone application with Neo4j and Java. In the... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Feb 08, 2022
13 mins read
All three of these technologies – Neo4j, Java, and AWS Lambda – are familiar to me, and yet using them together was entirely new. There were plenty of challenges, lots of questions, some Googling, and colleague input that led me to a working solution.I wanted to use existing code as much as... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Sep 24, 2021
11 mins read
This post takes a brief departure from Cypher temporals to the APOC library, where much of the temporal functionality for Neo4j began. From part 1 introducing Cypher dates and formats to part 4 where we combined duration functions and temporal components to translate amounts in one unit to... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Sep 15, 2021
7 mins read
I’ve recently been playing around with a JDK data set that details the historical library changes of the versions of Java, and with the release of Java 17 today (September 14!), I thought it would be a good time to explore this data set a bit more with others. I invite you to join me and to... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Aug 18, 2021
11 mins read
Image by Markus Winkler, Unsplash My previous part 1, part 2, and part 3 posts on this topic introduced Cypher dates, translated formats to the Cypher-supported ISO 8601 format, calculated durations, accessed components, and translated durations to certain values. Cypher Sleuthing: Dealing... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Jul 01, 2021
11 mins read
My previous part 1 and part 2 posts on this topic introduced Cypher dates, translated formats to the Cypher-supported ISO 8601 format, calculated durations, and measured lengths of time. Cypher Sleuthing: Dealing with Dates, Part 1 Cypher Sleuthing: Dealing with Dates, Part 2 If you... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
May 17, 2021
4 mins read
The Neo4j Online Developer Expo and Summit (NODES) is in its third year, and we can’t wait for you to join us! The online event features speakers from around the world on a wide variety of topics for the Neo4j ecosystem. Since the first NODES in 2019, our main goal for the conference is to... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
May 01, 2021
3 mins read
Hello, everyone! In this week’s episode, Neo4j Engineering announced the official release of the product-supported Neo4j GraphQL library, complete with new features, docs, and a migration guide. Will and Lju published another podcast episode for GraphStuff.FM on determining a... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Apr 26, 2021
10 mins read
My previous part 1 post on this topic introduced Cypher dates and translated a few other date formats to the Cypher-supported ISO 8601 format. If you read that, then this post is the next step with Cypher dates that covers durations and more. If you haven’t seen part 1, feel free to catch... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Apr 24, 2021
4 mins read
Hello, everyone! In this week’s episode, Tara gives us details on the Leonard Euler Idea Contest - registrations now open! Hadi published an article on how to export indexes and constraints from SQL Server graph tables to Neo4j. Darrel explains how Hexology is utilizing Neo4j... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Apr 17, 2021
4 mins read
Hello, everyone! In this week’s episode, Madison shows us how to use Neo4j with Python using the Py2neo package and includes steps and template code for recreating her walkthrough. Tom shows us how to model git commits with Neo4j and explains some contrasts between the same use... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Apr 10, 2021
4 mins read
Hello, everyone! In this week’s episode, don’t forget to join us for Global Graph Celebration Day on April 15! Neo4j is hosting an extended meetup with content and announcements. Cristina starts us off with a walkthrough of using Django and Neo4j together on the Paradise... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Apr 09, 2021
9 mins read
No matter what database, programming language, or webpage you might be using, dates always seem to cause headaches. Different date formats require calculations between application date pickers in user-friendly formats and system dates in backend devices and data sources. Then, programming... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Apr 08, 2021
6 mins read
My latest research for integrations with Neo4j brought me to Retool: a low-code tool for building applications with drag-and-drop components and Javascript customizations. Still not sure what that means?We have this very popular concept (in the U.S., at least) of create-your-own-food-item bars... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Apr 03, 2021
4 mins read
Hello, everyone! In this week’s episode, Jesús Barrasa shows us how to build a life sciences knowledge graph with public RDF sources on infectious diseases, viruses, chemicals, drugs, and scientific literature. Will creates a livestream and blog post on building playlist... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Mar 27, 2021
3 mins read
Hello, everyone! In this week’s episode, Marco Falcier announced an update to the neo4j-versioner-core library. NODES 2021 Call for Papers ends April 5. Cristina walks through how she and Alisson migrated Neo4j’s GraphGist portal to the GRANDstack. GraphStuff.FM is now live -... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Mar 26, 2021
4 mins read
On April 15, 2021, Neo4j is again leading the Global Graph Celebration Day for the 3rd year! We have some exciting activities planned for our event this year and would love to have you there. If you are experienced in all things Neo4j or brand new to graphs, Global Graph Celebration Day 2021... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Feb 12, 2021
11 mins read
We are continuing our journey through different use cases with GraalVM and Neo4j. In the last blog post, we covered a few of the different ways we could use Neo4j and GraalVM together. As a refresher, the list is shown below.Polyglot clients — access Neo4j from languages... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Feb 04, 2021
10 mins read
Part of the goal for Neo4j Labs is to provide a broader spectrum of useful integrations with Neo4j and other technologies. Technologies that have the opportunity to complement or expand upon the abilities of Neo4j are explored, and potential integrations are built and passed to you (the community)... read more
Jennifer Reif, Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
Mar 21, 2020
5 mins read
Hello, fellow nodes! It’s been a busy week in the world - in general and at Neo4j! We hope everyone is staying safe out there and finding new and creative ways to engage and contribute. We have a variety of opportunities coming up for projects, events, and content, and we hope to... read more