Monthly Archives: February 2015

Caching Immutable Id lookups in Neo4j

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If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you probably know I like using YourKit and Gatling for testing end to end requests in Neo4j. Today however we are going to do something a little different. We are going to be micro-benchmarking a very small piece of code within our Unmanaged Extension using a Java library called JMH.

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Remote Profiling Neo4j with YourKit on AWS

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A few months ago, Mark Needham blogged about how to setup remote monitoring of Neo4j using YourKit. I was asked the other day about getting a few more details on how to do this on Amazon, so here is my attempt at that. The first thing we’ll do is setup Neo4j on a Virtual Private Cloud. It’s good practice to not put your databases directly on the public internet.
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