Jocelyn has been involved in some form of content creation since graduating with a journalism degree in 1999. With various stints at A&E publications, she eventually helmed rock magazine institution Crawdaddy! as the Editor-in-Chief. Somewhat incongruously, in her free time, she wrote a biography for teens on Isaac Asimov. Today, when not building content around the fascinating world of graphs, she manages her own online music magazine, No Recess!.
Oh hai. My name is Jocelyn Hoppa, Managing Editor here at Neo4j. One of my main duties is to keep up with the daily blog slog, and let me tell you: The 2019 graph database space kept me busy. So yes, what are the best Neo4j blogs of this past year? Our bylines cast a wide net... read more
"When a person leaves his job, we need to remove all the access he had. But in 90% of these cases, the person still has access after they leave the company," said Manish Jain, Chief Solutions Architect & Subject Matter Expert (SME) - Databases for NTT Data Services. In this week's five-minute... read more
"We're the world's number one Neo4j consultancy, which we're proud of and have worked very hard at," said Kyle McNamara, CEO, Americas, at GraphAware. In this week's five-minute interview (conducted at GraphTour DC 2019), we talk with... read more
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, our Editor-in-Chief, Bryce Merkly Sasaki, highlights the NODES 2019 keynote given by Emil Eifrem and also points you to more than 50 other valuable talks and... read more
"If I take information from 50 of my relational databases, I can build an interesting graph and learn what makes some kids do better than others," said Forrest Swope, Manager of Data Operations, University of Virginia. In this week's five-minute interview (conducted at GraphTour DC 2019), we... read more
"I've noticed that queries run a lot faster than in my SQL databases, but the biggest concept is being able to see connections across the information that you wouldn't normally see," said David Meza, Chief Knowledge Architect at Johnson Space Center in Houston. In this week's five-minute... read more
"I got a fairly big data set, around 2 gigabytes, and I created the same kind of relationships in SQL Server and in Neo4j. When I got the results back, that was a wow moment,” said Dee Pandian, Deputy Director of CyForce at Jacobs Engineering. In this week's five-minute interview... read more
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, our EIC, Bryce Merkl Sasaki, pointed us to the newly released "The Laundromat," a film about the Panama Papers. Have you seen it yet? This week,... read more
Like a complex system grid or an air-traffic-control map, a graph database is represented as a network of nodes and connections called a labeled property graph. The nodes, which appear as circles or squares, represent entities such as people, products, companies or orders. In Neo4j, the... read more
"The feedback we receive from participants is that together we accomplish an impressive amount of work in just a week, even on projects that they've been thinking about, working on, and POC'ing for years,” said Alessandro Svensson, head of Innovation Labs at Neo4j. In this week's five-minute... read more
The growth of enterprise networks and the explosion of connected devices has turned Identity and Access Management (IAM) into one of the top concerns of IT organizations across the globe. IAM is often implemented using directory-service solutions provided by operating-system or enterprise... read more
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, our content chief, Bryce Merkl Sasaki, highlighted an intro video on deploying the Neo4j graph database on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), which means more... read more
"Graphs have gone mainstream," said Dr. David Bader, School of Computational Science and Engineering Georgia Tech. When David Bader started working with graphs 25 years ago, it was a niche that required designing specific algorithms and even specific computers. Now the Neo4j graph database is... read more
"The use cases for graph databases are far more numerous than people imagined early on," said Pascal Desmarets, founder and CEO of Hackolade. NoSQL databases are schemaless, so data modeling isn’t necessary – at least in theory. In practice, Hackolade saw a niche in the market to provide a... read more
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, Bryce Merkl Sasaki put the spotlight on Neo4j's Chief Scientist Jim Webber, who is a graph database technical guru (a thing I just made up, but not untrue!).... read more
"Graph databases are the natural solution to the problems we face in compliance," said Julian Schibberges, Managing Director of the Bernstein Group. Tough compliance problems require a look not just at particular people or businesses but at the larger network around them. Consulting with... read more
”Graph databases haven't even begun to reach their full potential," said Christian Tsambikakis, CEO of KERBEROS Compliance. Compliance with anti-money laundering regulations is a challenge, and companies in industries like sports-betting and real estate face strict auditing and reporting... read more
It takes approximately one work day (or 8 hours) to complete training – and be proficient in – common administration tasks for a production deployment of Neo4j Enterprise Edition. This training course was originally based on Neo4j 3.3, and so, got a much-needed update that better reflects... read more
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, our Editor-in-Chief, Bryce Merkl Sasaki, sent a raven and featured a video showcasing the power of graph analytics with a Game of Thrones dataset. (Eeeee,... read more
"Data is meaningless if you don't know how to connect it," said Ann Grubbs, Chief Data Engineer at Lockheed Martin Space. Lockheed Martin Space builds satellites, following the entire product lifecycle, from proposals to engineering and design to procurement and manufacturing, right through... read more
"When I saw Neo4j the first time, I was overwhelmed by how easy it is to connect different types of data," said Dr. Alexander Jarasch, Head of Data and Knowledge Management at the German Center for Diabetes Research. Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases worldwide. The German Center for... read more
"It was an aha moment. Integrating our solution with Neo4j allowed us to focus on the critical things we do well, visualization and interactivity," said Weidong Yang, CEO of Kineviz. San Francisco-based Kineviz believes that working with data is often more of an art than an engineering skill,... read more
In less than a day, you could become a graphista. Because we believe that graph databases are the future of backend software development, we wanted to make it easier and simpler than ever to get started on your graph journey. That's why we've just completed a much-needed overhaul of the... read more
"We've tried using LDAP. We've tried using SQL databases. It's just a nightmare to be honest," said Alex Babeanu, Identity Solutions Architect at Nulli. With smartphones, online services, smart devices, the number of identities that must be managed is exploding, exponentially increasing the... read more
Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our new series featuring what you might have missed on the Neo4j YouTube channel. Last time, our Editor-in-Chief, Bryce Merkl Sasaki, pivoted away from video and onto the podcast medium to highlight a recent Exponential View interview with CEO and... read more
