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Jocelyn Hoppa

Senior Manager, Content, Neo4j

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 likes to cook healthy, delicious food, play music, annoy her cats, and watch bad TV or great movies with her fiance.


Latest Posts by Jocelyn Hoppa


Welcoming Nathalie Kornhoff-Brüls

Please Welcome Nathalie Kornhoff-Brüls of Eurazeo to the Neo4j Board

We are thrilled to welcome Nathalie Kornhoff-Brüls, Managing Director of Growth at Eurazeo, to the Neo4j Board. Eurazeo is one of Neo4j's latest and greatest investors, and our partnership with them signals great things ahead as we expand through Europe and beyond. Nathalie, who is involved in... read more


Catch this week's GraphCast: Graph-Native Scale, the Trillion+ Relationship Graph

#GraphCast: Graph-Native Scale, the Trillion+ Relationship Graph

Welcome to this week's #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight. Last time, our Blog Managing Editor, Angela Zimmerman, showcased a recent presentation from this year's NODES 2021 conference that provides a clear, concise introduction... read more




Catch this week's GraphCast: Getting Started with Arrows

#GraphCast: Getting Started with Arrows

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, broke down unlimited scalability with Neo4j 4.0, including vertical and horizontal scalability as well as database... read more



Check out the top blogs published on Neo4j in 2019.

8 Awesome Neo4j Blogs from 2019

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


Deep Access Control: 5-Minute Interview with Manish Jain

"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


Graph Hyper-Growth Ahead: 5-Minute Interview with Kyle McNamara

"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


Catch this week's GraphCast: Watching this entertaining presentation on graph databases and why they are life-changing.

#GraphCast: “Graph Databases Will Change Your Freakin’ Life”

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


Capturing Relationships: 5-Minute Interview with Forrest Swope

"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


Turning Data Into Actionable Knowledge: 5-Minute Interview with David Meza

"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


SQL Server Advocate Turns Graph:
5-Minute Interview with Dee Pandian

"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



Learn 15 aspects of a native graph database.

It’s All in the Relationships: 15 Rules of a Native Graph Database

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


Check out this 5-minute interview to learn about Innovation Labs at Neo4j.

Innovate In Less Than a Week: 5-Minute Interview with Alessandro Svensson

"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


Learn more about how graph technology eliminates the chaos of IAM.

Connecting the Complexity of Identity and Access Management

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


Learn how the Paradise Papers are still turning up results.

#GraphCast: Follow the Money

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


Check out this interview with David Bader of Georgia Tech.

Solving Real-World Problems: 5-Minute Interview with David Bader

"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


Check out this interview with Pascal Desmarets, CEO of Hackolade.

NoSQL Data Modeling: 5-Minute Interview with Pascal Desmarets

"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



Check out this 5-minute interview with Julian Schibberges of Bernstein Group.

Graphs and RegTech: 5-Minute Interview with Julian Schibberges

"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


Check out this 5-minute interview with Christian Tsambikakis.

Connecting Compliance: 5-Minute Interview with Christian Tsambikakis

”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


Learn more about the Neo4j Administration free online training course.

Check Out the Newly Revamped Neo4j Administration Online Training Course

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