Connecting People
The Impact of the Graph Beyond
Nodes and Relationships
Tareq Abedrabbo - Graph Café London
27 November 2013
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About me
• CTO at OpenCredo
• Working with Neo4j for (almost) 3 years on a
number of different projects
• Co-author of Neo4j in Action (Manning)
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During our engagements, we
observed a number of interesting
patterns around the inception and
evolution of Neo4j projects
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Who chooses Neo4j?
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People with a
business vision
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How do we evolve the
solution from the
concept?
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Get people in a room.
Collaborate, experiment
and evolve
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What is the impact on
how people work?
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The graph is a
communication catalyst
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“Any organization that designs a system
will inevitably produce a design whose
structure is a copy of the organization's
communication structure.” Conway’s law