It’s been another fun week in the world of Neo4j, the highlight of my week being the online meetup where Lju and I had a great time showing off the BBC GoodFood graph that we’ve been working on. There were lots of questions about graph modeling, so be sure to check that out. Andrea Santurbano continues with his series of posts about integrating Neo4j with Kafka, and If you’re deploying to the cloud this is your lucky week as David Allen shares scripts for automating the whole process on AWS and GCP. And if that wasn’t enough, we also had the winter release of the APOC library, and Luanne Misquitta shows us how to build and query a software dependency graph.

1. This Week in Neo4j
23rd February 2019

2. Mark Needham
Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j
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3. The week's graph database news
in one handy slide deck!
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neo4j.com/tag/twin4j

4. Featured Community: Calin Constantinov
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5. In last week’s Neo4j Online Meetup, Lju Lazarevic and I
showed how to build a graph of BBC GoodFood recipes. In
the talk we showed how to model the raw data as a graph,
how to import it using the APOC library, and after showing
some basic queries, wrote a more
complex one that found recipes
that didn’t contain any of my
allergens.
Building the BBC GoodFood Graph
Watch the video

6. In the 2nd article of his series about leveraging Neo4j
Stream, Andrea Santurbano explains how to bring Neo4j
into your Apache Kafka flow by using the Sink module of
the Neo4j Streams project in combination with Apache
Spark’s Structured
Streaming Apis.
How to ingest data into Neo4j from a Kafka stream
Read the blog post

7. This week we had the winter release of the popular APOC
library, which contains a new procedure to clone and
re-anchor sub graphs, functions for fingerprinting graphs,
as well as a function to allow inspection of free storage.
Read the release post
APOC Winter Release and Documentation Refresh

8. David Allen has started writing a series of blog posts on
automating Neo4j deploys on cloud platforms. David
shares shell scripts that automate the whole process.
How to Automate Neo4j Deploys on AWS and GCP
Read the blog post

9. Dependency management is a very common use case for
graphs, and in her latest post Luanne Misquitta shows how
we can build a dependency graph of tasks in a software
project.
Lean Dependencies- Reduce Project Delivery Chaos
with Graphs
Read the blog post

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This Week in Neo4j - 23rd February 2019