In “my” industry people speaking a lot of doing things “with passion or not at all.” I’m wonder, are we aware of what passion meant? The word itself means both in Greek and Latin “to suffer”, which fits very well with the some of the crazy work ethics out there. I for myself try to […]
This is the forth post in this series and I want to keep it short and simple. A domain can be modeled in many ways and so can databases. As long as I deal with them, I always preferred the approach: Database (model) first. Usually, data is much longer around than applications and I don’t […]
In the previous post I presented various ways how to get data into Neo4j. Now that you have a lot of connected data and it’s attributes, how to access, manipulate, add to them and delete them? I’m working with and in the Spring ecosystem quite a while now and for me the straight answer is […]
This is the second post in the series of From relational databases to databases with relations. Check the link to find all the other entries, too. The source code for everything, including the relational dataset is on GitHub: https://github.com/michael-simons/bootiful-music.The post has also been featured in This Week in Neo4j. To feel comfortable in a talk, […]
In the summer of 2018, I joined Neo4j. This seems odd at first, my “love” for relational databases and SQL is known. I didn’t have this slide in my jOOQ presentation for two years now without reason. But: Looking at the jOOQ and SQL talks from the perspective of early 2000s, they also seemed odd […]