Company
Date Published
Author
Bryce Merkl Sasaki
Word count
651
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Graph technology is a non-relational technology that emerges from relational databases, offering a different tools-for-different-jobs approach. It allows traversing and analyzing relationships between entities in various domains such as delivery routing, social graph traversal, and IoT use cases. The symbiotic relationship with other technologies like artificial intelligence can enhance its capabilities. Graph technology needs to go mainstream, requiring developers to be more conscious of the wider context in which they build projects for ethical and self-interested reasons, always asking "why?"