Jennifer Reif is a Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j, conference speaker, blogger, and an avid developer and problem-solver. She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Management and Information Systems and has worked with large enterprises to organize and make sense of widespread data assets and leverage them for maximum business value. She has worked with a variety of commercial and open source tools and enjoys learning new technologies, sometimes on a daily basis! Her passion is finding ways to organize chaos and deliver software more effectively.
Photo by Growtika on UnsplashThere are so many options when it comes to languages, frameworks, and tools for building generative AI (GenAI) applications. When you are just getting started, these decisions and figuring out how to integrate everything can be overwhelming.My team has been working... read more
Photo by No Revisions on UnsplashIt’s been a while since I wrote a Cypher Sleuthing post, but I’m back with a new one! This time, I’m going to show you how to find the data types of properties in Neo4j.I frequently want to find out the data type of a property so that I... read more
The term “RAG” is used a lot in today’s technical landscape, but what does it actually mean? Here are a few definitions from various sources:“Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is the process of optimizing the output of a large language model, so it references an... read more
Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash In our world today, we seem to encounter crises and global struggles on a daily basis. But what if we could help others and improve life around us using the data and technology at our fingertips?Graph databases like Neo4j help us do exactly that. By... read more
A new course is available on GraphAcademy for Building Neo4j Applications with Java! Michael Hunger and I collaborated to create a hands-on course that starts with a project skeleton and guides users through writing code to build a completed IMDB-clone application with Neo4j and Java. In the... read more
All three of these technologies – Neo4j, Java, and AWS Lambda – are familiar to me, and yet using them together was entirely new. There were plenty of challenges, lots of questions, some Googling, and colleague input that led me to a working solution.I wanted to use existing code as much as... read more
This post takes a brief departure from Cypher temporals to the APOC library, where much of the temporal functionality for Neo4j began. From part 1 introducing Cypher dates and formats to part 4 where we combined duration functions and temporal components to translate amounts in one unit to... read more
I’ve recently been playing around with a JDK data set that details the historical library changes of the versions of Java, and with the release of Java 17 today (September 14!), I thought it would be a good time to explore this data set a bit more with others. I invite you to join me and to... read more
Image by Markus Winkler, Unsplash My previous part 1, part 2, and part 3 posts on this topic introduced Cypher dates, translated formats to the Cypher-supported ISO 8601 format, calculated durations, accessed components, and translated durations to certain values. Cypher Sleuthing: Dealing... read more
My previous part 1 and part 2 posts on this topic introduced Cypher dates, translated formats to the Cypher-supported ISO 8601 format, calculated durations, and measured lengths of time. Cypher Sleuthing: Dealing with Dates, Part 1 Cypher Sleuthing: Dealing with Dates, Part 2 If you... read more
Hello, everyone! In this week’s episode, Neo4j Engineering announced the official release of the product-supported Neo4j GraphQL library, complete with new features, docs, and a migration guide. Will and Lju published another podcast episode for GraphStuff.FM on determining a... read more
My previous part 1 post on this topic introduced Cypher dates and translated a few other date formats to the Cypher-supported ISO 8601 format. If you read that, then this post is the next step with Cypher dates that covers durations and more. If you haven’t seen part 1, feel free to catch... read more
Hello, everyone! In this week’s episode, Tara gives us details on the Leonard Euler Idea Contest - registrations now open! Hadi published an article on how to export indexes and constraints from SQL Server graph tables to Neo4j. Darrel explains how Hexology is utilizing Neo4j... read more
Hello, everyone! In this week’s episode, Madison shows us how to use Neo4j with Python using the Py2neo package and includes steps and template code for recreating her walkthrough. Tom shows us how to model git commits with Neo4j and explains some contrasts between the same use... read more
Hello, everyone! In this week’s episode, don’t forget to join us for Global Graph Celebration Day on April 15! Neo4j is hosting an extended meetup with content and announcements. Cristina starts us off with a walkthrough of using Django and Neo4j together on the Paradise... read more
No matter what database, programming language, or webpage you might be using, dates always seem to cause headaches. Different date formats require calculations between application date pickers in user-friendly formats and system dates in backend devices and data sources. Then, programming... read more
My latest research for integrations with Neo4j brought me to Retool: a low-code tool for building applications with drag-and-drop components and Javascript customizations. Still not sure what that means?We have this very popular concept (in the U.S., at least) of create-your-own-food-item bars... read more
Hello, everyone! In this week’s episode, Jesús Barrasa shows us how to build a life sciences knowledge graph with public RDF sources on infectious diseases, viruses, chemicals, drugs, and scientific literature. Will creates a livestream and blog post on building playlist... read more
Hello, everyone! In this week’s episode, Marco Falcier announced an update to the neo4j-versioner-core library. NODES 2021 Call for Papers ends April 5. Cristina walks through how she and Alisson migrated Neo4j’s GraphGist portal to the GRANDstack. GraphStuff.FM is now live -... read more
We are continuing our journey through different use cases with GraalVM and Neo4j. In the last blog post, we covered a few of the different ways we could use Neo4j and GraalVM together. As a refresher, the list is shown below.Polyglot clients — access Neo4j from languages... read more
Part of the goal for Neo4j Labs is to provide a broader spectrum of useful integrations with Neo4j and other technologies. Technologies that have the opportunity to complement or expand upon the abilities of Neo4j are explored, and potential integrations are built and passed to you (the community)... read more
Hello, fellow nodes! It’s been a busy week in the world - in general and at Neo4j! We hope everyone is staying safe out there and finding new and creative ways to engage and contribute. We have a variety of opportunities coming up for projects, events, and content, and we hope to... read more
Hi, fellow nodes! I am stepping in this week for our wonderful curator, Mark Needham. We know this week’s Twin4j just won’t be the same without him, but we’ll do our best. :) In this edition, David Allen gives us a behind-the-scenes look on the monitoring tool Halin and how to... read more
Neo4j is thrilled to offer a brand new look to the GraphAcademy University Program with updates specifically for instructors – teaching Neo4j in a classroom lab setting! We have been working hard to provide resources for educators to help students learn about Neo4j and introduce graph... read more
Happy Saturday everyone, Mark Needham, our trusted curator of "This Week in Neo4j is off for a few weeks to be with his newborn baby daughter - All the best for your family Mark! So we will take care that your weekly update of interesting things from the Neo4j community continues, sorry for... read more
