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Date Published
Author
Bryce Merkl Sasaki
Word count
657
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Aseem Kishore, the founder of FiftyThree, discusses how his company uses Neo4j in its Paper app for capturing and sharing ideas. He highlights the benefits of using Neo4j, including its ability to handle complex interconnected data models and support high write throughput. Aseem shares some interesting results he's seen while using Neo4j, such as creating a tree-like structure to convey remixes between ideas, without denormalizing the data or precomputing the list. He also reflects on what he would do differently if he were to start again with Neo4j, including breaking out disparate types of data into separate nodes to improve performance and scalability. Overall, Aseem is excited about the latest developments in Neo4j and its potential for supporting complex graph-based applications.