Would you believe there is no shortage of Twitter Clone example applications…maybe because they are easy to replicate (ba dum tss, I’ll be here all week.) The earliest one I remember was written by Salvatore Sanfilippo creator of Redis.
It’s a pretty good read, where he explains the basics of Redis (a Key Value store on steroids) and how to model a social network in it. One of the interesting bits to me is how the status updates (tweets) are handled.
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Lets take a look at a scenario where you are trying to search for things by their attributes, not their description. They can be users, documents, or any object that could be described by discrete values in multiple dimensions. What does that mean exactly? Well, let me give you an example: searching for a dog. My family includes 2 four legged furry creatures named Tyler and Ronnie. They are my half lab, half golden retrievers. Dogs come in all shapes and sizes, from teacup breeds with adult weights around 5 lbs, to giant Mastiff breeds over 150 lbs. But most people don’t care exactly how much a dog weights, only their general size.
A user on StackOverflow was wondering about the performance between Neo4j and MySQL for performing a recursive query. They started with Neo4j performing the query in 240 seconds. Then an optimized cypher query got them down to 40 seconds. Then I got them down to…
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I’ve been so busy these last 6 months I just finally got around to watching Luke Cage on Netflix. The season 1 episode 5 intro is Jidenna performing “Long live the Chief” and it made me pause the series while I figured out who that was. I’m mostly a hard rock and heavy metal guy, but I do appreciate great pieces of lyrical work and this song made me take notice. Coincidently on the Neo4j Users Slack (get an invite) @sleo asked…
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Back in Part 2 we ran some JMH tests to see how many empty nodes we could create. Let’s try that test one more time, but adding some properties. Our nodes will have a username, an age and a weight randomly assigned. It’s not a long test, but just enough to give us a ballpark.
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In part 4 I promised metrics and a shell, so that’s what we’ll tackle today. We are lucky that the Metrics library can be plugged into Jooby without much effort… and double lucky that the Crash library can also be plugged into Jooby without much effort. This is what we are all about here because we’re a bunch of lazy, impatient developers who are ignorant of the limits of our capabilities and who would rather reuse open source code instead of falling victim to the “Not Invented Here” syndrome and do everything from scratch.
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In Neo4j 3.1 Enterprise edition, we introduced the first wave of security features that are coming down the pipeline. Now you can start off with Administrators, Architects, Publishers and Readers as built in default groups. You can read about their capabilities in the docs.
If you’ve been paying attention, you know Neo4j thrives under it’s dynamic customizability. The developers decided to let us build our own custom Roles and limit their capabilities to a set of Stored Procedures. With this, we can build any kind of access control we want, but let’s go for the jugular and let’s see how we can build property level security for Neo4j.
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Please read parts 1, 2 and 3 before continuing or you’ll be lost.
We started adding an HTTP server to our database last time and created just a couple of end points. Today we’ll finish out the rest of the end points. We’ll also be good open source developers by hooking in Continuous Integration , Test Coverage and Continuous Deployment.
What would you think if I ran out of time,
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your eyes and I’ll write you a post
And I’ll try not to run out of memory.
Oh, I get by with a little help from my threads
Mm, I get high with a little help from my threads
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my threads
Today we are going to take a look at how to take a Neo4j traversal and split it up into lots of smaller traversals. I promise it will be electrifying.
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If you haven’t read part 1 and part 2 then do that first or you’ll have no clue what I’m doing, and I’d like to be the only one not knowing what I’m doing.
We’ve built the beginnings of this database but so far it’s just a library and for it to be a proper database we need to be able to talk to it. Following the Neo4j footsteps, we will wrap a web server around our database and see how it performs.
There are a ton of Java based frameworks and micro-frameworks out there. Not as bad as the Javascript folks, but that still leaves us with a lot of choices. So as any developer would do I turn to benchmarks done by other people of stuff that doesn’t apply to me, and you won’t believe what I found –scratch that, yes you will, I got benchmarks.
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