How Medium uses Neo4j
Nathaniel Felsen, DevOps engineer at Medium, talks about how they are using Neo4j for building a social graph and recommendations for a personalized content experience. He reviews their evaluation process, system architecture, what steps they took to move their solution into production and gives a demonstration of their usage.
Other databases evaluated for this solution: AWS DynamoDB, MySQL, Flock DB.
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More people than ever are sharing their stories and ideas — from little tales that make your day better to manifestos that change the world. Everyone from professional journalists to amateur storytellers and non-profit leaders are writing on Medium every day.
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