This Week in Neo4j – 30 September 2017


Welcome to this week in Neo4j where we round up what’s been happening in the world of graph databases in the last 7 days.


This week’s featured community member is Sylvain Roussy, Director of R&D at Blueway Software.

Sylvain Roussy - This Week's Featured Community Member

Sylvain Roussy – This Week’s Featured Community Member

Sylvain has been a member of the Neo4j community for a number of years now, and is the author of a French book on Neo4j – Des données et des graphes. He is currently working on a new book which demonstrates developing an graph based application from idea to production. All presented in dialogues of the project team.

He’s also been organising the Neo4j meetup in Lyon since 2014.

On behalf of the Neo4j community thanks for all your work Sylvain!

Online Meetup: Building Conversational Experiences with Amazon Alexa and Neo4j


In this week’s online meetup GraphAware‘s Christophe Willemsen showed us how to combine Amazon Alexa and Neo4j to build great conversational experiences.



You can catch a live version of this talk at GraphConnect NYC 2017. Christophe will also be hanging out in the DevZone giving demos of the Alexa to anyone who’s interested.

Graphing metaphors, Building a Source Code Schema, GraphQL and GoT


Neo4j, Fraud Detection, and Python


The Data Science Milan group recently hosted an event which focused on different data science applications that are made possible using graph databases.



The video contains a mix of talks in English and Italian – the one in English is about 50 minutes in so if you’re language challenged like me you’ll want to skip forwards to there.

On the podcast: Tomaz Bratanic


This week on the podcast Rik interviewed Tomaz Bratanic, who’s written many great blog posts that we’ve featured in previous versions of TWIN4j.

Tomaz and Rik talk about Tomaz’s move from playing poker to coding fulltime, why he loves the Cypher query language, and more!

Tweet of the Week


My favourite tweet this week was by Max Sumrall, my former colleague on the Neo4j clustering team:

Don’t forget to RT if you liked it too.

That’s all for this week. Have a great weekend!

Cheers, Mark