Ryan Boyd is a speaker, author, developer and developer relations guru with a background in coding, leadership and management.
On Thursday, October 10th, we’ll be gathering developers from all around the world for the first-ever *FREE* Neo4j Online Developer Conference: NODES 2019! We're happy to announce that we've selected 52 talks to be presented from speakers in 10+ countries, including the keynote from our CEO... read more
Registration for GraphConnect 2020 is now open! Join us on April 20-22 in New York City for the largest-ever gathering of graph database developers, architects and CTOs. GraphConnect 2020 will feature speakers from around the world presenting on how Neo4j has had a bottom-line impact... read more
On Thursday, October 10th, we'll be gathering developers from all around the world for the first-ever Neo4j Online Developer Expo and Summit (NODES)! This amazing day-long event will bring insightful technical talks to you from Neo4j engineers and community members – all in an interactive... read more
At GraphConnect last year, we brought together developers and business leaders from around the world into a single event with 48 sessions, an executive summit, an ecosystem summit and 13 different training classes. We also had very notable keynote presenters, including Hilary Mason (Cloudera Fast... read more
Hi everyone, My name is Ryan Boyd, and I'm on the Developer Relations team here at Neo4j. I want to talk with you today about our latest release Neo4j 3.4. Overview In Neo4j 3.4 we've made improvements across the entire graph database system, from scalability and performance, to... read more
Early this morning (1 Dec.), the Pulitzer Prize-winning International Consortium for Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released an ICIJ version of Neo4j Desktop which includes the Paradise Papers and the other Offshore Leaks graph data. This desktop package – available for Windows, Mac and... read more
When we announced the new Neo4j Sandbox back in March, we enabled developers to learn Neo4j while exploring data and interactive guides for four use cases: Recommendations Engines, TrumpWorld, US Congress (Legis-Graph) and Twitter analysis. We've seen lots of developers super excited about how... read more
Many Neo4j users host their databases in on-premise data centers, but there’s an increasing trend of utilizing cloud-based hosting providers. EC2 on Amazon Web Services has always been a popular choice given its success in the market, so we wanted to make it even easier to deploy Neo4j on... read more
We have just opened the Call for Papers for GraphConnect! Taking place October 13-14, the GraphConnect San Francisco conference is a gathering of over 1,000 graph database enthusiasts. The participants come from all backgrounds – some are technology executives, some are engineering managers,... read more
We're excited to have been chosen by the team at Docker to be included as a launch partner in the brand new Docker Store. Although it is still in limited beta, we wanted to share a bit on why we're enthusiastic about the new Store and Docker as a platform for distribution and operations. Docker... read more
Editor's Note: Don't miss this live webinar with Mar Cabra on how the ICIJ used Neo4j to unravel the Panama Papers happening today (26 May) at 9:00 PDT / 18:00 CEST. Click here to register or for more info. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) used Neo4j to power... read more
If a picture can speak 1,000 words, a five-minute video can speak 8,991,000 words (1,000 * 29.97 * 60 * 5). That's powerful! In this short video, we review the key features of Neo4j 3.0. As the first release in the 3.x series, Neo4j 3.0 is based on a completely redesigned architecture and a... read more
Last December, we announced the Neo4j Winter GraphGist Challenge. We invited our global graphista community to document and explain how various types of data could be modeled in a graph, using the GraphGist tool. We had dozens of fantastic entries, and today I'm excited to announce the winners,... read more
Editor’s Note: Last October at GraphConnect San Francisco, Ryan Boyd – Developer Relations at Neo Technology – delivered this presentation on how to perform various graph compute functions within the Neo4j ecosystem. For more videos from GraphConnect SF and to register for GraphConnect... read more
The Neo4j Winter GraphGist Challenge has officially begun! This year’s mission includes more categories, bigger prizes and new judges, so whether you’re a GraphGist veteran or a brand-new graphista, there is something for everyone to enjoy. The... read more
Neo4j has long been distributed with a dataset of movies – showing how movies, actors, actresses, directors and more relate to each other. We've also recently added Northwind organizational data for those developers who are more business minded. Nonetheless, these datasets don't capture the... read more
We already know you’re excited to attend GraphConnect San Francisco (did we mention there’s only five days left to register?), and you’ve already checked out the amazing agenda and star-studded speaker lineup. But while long, in-depth talks are certainly helpful to sharpening your graph... read more
Every language and data storage solution has its strengths. After all, no single solution is most performant and cost-effective for every possible task in your application. In order to tap into the varying strengths of different data storage solutions, your application needs to take advantage of... read more
