I am working since 2018 for Neo4j. At Neo4j I maintain both Spring Data Neo4j and Neo4j-OGM, both object mappers and entity managers for our database product. This is a great job in a great company with awesome colleagues such as my friends Gerrit and Michael. Some other projects I created on the job are […]
It’s late December and I am winding down with 2021, which was pretty much 2020 too, while looking skeptical into actual 2022. I will come up with a personal review after I am done with the #Rapha500 and will focus here on what I found out to be great in 2021 work wise (aka programming […]
Recently, I realized I am an old person: Back in 2004, @tinasimons met an "elder" couple at Rock am Ring, who had some quite delicious food with them. They had been equiped totally different than us. We liked them but found them kinda funny. 17 years later I realize: Today we would be that couple. […]
In my role as a Spring library developer at Neo4j, I spent the last year – together with Gerrit on creating the next version of Spring Data Neo4j. Our name so far has been Spring Data Neo4j⚡️RX but in the end, it will be SDN 6. Anyway. Part of the module is our Neo4j Cypher-DSL. […]
Over the last weekend, I had some time on my hands and revisited my biking application: https://biking.michael-simons.eu. That application turned 10 this year, started as a Sinatra based Ruby application in 2009 and helped me a lot from the late 2013 and early 2014 in my career. Back then, I was using Spring for a […]