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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