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Supper Club × Adam Cowley and Neo4j Database
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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Adam Cowley about how Neo4j Database can help when working with data for your next app.
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Show Notes 00:15 Welcome
01:24 Guest introduction
03:15 Browser innovation and testing
05:01 What is a graph database?
Neo4j Cypher
Sanity Groq
08:11 Is there a specific type of data that works best in a graph database?
11:57 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response
13:14 What’s AuraDB vs Neo4js?
15:01 Whiteboard friendly data model
19:52 How are GraphQL and graph related?
23:08 Can you sync with MongoDB?
24:41 How do you pull data into a div on the web?
29:19 Why are you used for data science a lot?
30:43 Sponsor: Gatsby
31:51 Is visualization an important part of Neo4js?
Neo4j Bloom
36:01 Do you have to think about indexing with graph databases?
39:43 Are there uses Neo4j isn’t as good for?
40:22 Do you have to cache queries?
41:26 Dessert questions
Intellijet Idea
Cobalt 2 Theme
50:36 Shameless Plug
Neo4j Desktop
Neo4j Cloud
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