Register INFO This tutorial covers the core functionality of the Neo4j graph database. With a mixture of theory and hands-on practice sessions, attendees will quickly learn how easy it is to develop a Neo4j-backed application. Topics covered include: - Introduction to Neo4j - Overview of Cypher query language - Social use cases including recommendations - Permissions modeling - Other case studies in real world domains - Opportunity to consult on current projects, possible implementations and proof of concepts Attendees won't need any previous experience with Neo4j, NOSQL databases or specific development languages, but will need their own laptop with Neo4j installed. The tutorial will be held at Xebia's offices in Hilversu. Breakfast, lunch and refreshments will be provided. INSTRUCTOR Stefan Armbruster, Field Engineer, Neo Technology Stefan has spent ~15 years as a freelancing consultant, mainly focused on web applications (esp. Grails), and the past 3 years working with Neo4j. Aside from coding in the java ecosystem, he is a passionate Linux veteran since the kernel 1.0.x days and when not coding, he cycles and is a volunteer firefighter at the local fire department, acting as team lead and instructor. He's all geek and loves technology, good food and wine.

Event Info This will be our first summer meetup with Elastx (http://elastx.com/). They are providers of supercool SSD only datacenter(s) based in Stockholm doing PaaS on the Jelastic platform. You can read more about them here. Or even better, come to the meetup and meet the team behind this awesome platform. The agenda is: Neo4j with Elastx/Jelastic (by Elastx team) - Introduction - deploy Neo4j on Jelastic/elastx. (Live demo, performance w SSD etc). - Performance testing as a SaaS. (check loadimpact.com), How an SSD+Neo4j instance could be the killer app. Break-out sessions This time the breakout sessions will be steeded towards Neo4j in production: - Discussion about how to manage Neo4j in production. - Every thing from HA to Puppet manifests and - future of cloud/hosting and how it will shape next generation applications

Event Info As we have noticed that many of our meetup group members are looking for introductory type information on what graph databases are, how they can be used, what purposes that they serve, we would like to organise a short, two hour meeting (followed by a light lunch) to give you exactly that information. Participation is free but seats are limited. During this 1.5 hour session we will present, explain and discuss introductory topics that require no prior knowledge on graph databases at all. After the presentation, there will be plenty of time to discuss and network, and share a drink with us if you like.

Event Info Dieser Neo4j Workshop führt in die Funktionsweise und Nutzung der Neo4j Graphendatenbank ein. Durch eine Mischung aus Theorie und praktischen Übungen können die Teilnehmer schnell erlernen, wie einfach es ist, eine auf Neo4j basierende Applikation zu erstellen. Die Themen im Einzelnen: - Einführung in Neo4j - Überblick über die Abfragesprache Cypher - Darstellung eines Anwendungsfalls: Soziales Netzwerk, inklusive Freundes-Empfehlung - praktische Modellierung von Zugriffsrechten - Modellierung weiterer Anwendungsfälle in verschiedenen Gebieten - Diskussion von Fragen zu bestehenden Projekten, mögliche Implementierungsstrategien, Evaluations-Ansätze Die Teilnehmer benötigen keinerlei Erfahrung mit Neo4j, mit NOSQL Datenbanken oder spezifischen Programmiersprachen. Erfahrung mit Datenbanken im Allgemeinen sind hilfreich. Sie benötigen aber eigene Laptops für eine Installation von Neo4j. USB-Sticks mit den notwendigen Daten werden bereitgestellt. Für das leibliche Wohl ist gesorgt!

Register Graph Databases have many use cases in many industries, but one of the most interesting ones that are emerging is in the Gaming industry. Because of its real-time nature, games are a perfect environment to make use of graph-based queries that are the basis for in-game recommendations. These recommendations make games more interesting for the users (they get to play cooler games with other people in their area, of their level, sharing their social network profile, etc) but also more profitable for the game providers, developers and publishers. After all: the latter want to be recommending specific games to specific target audiences, and thereby maximising their potential revenues.