Wednesday
Room 3
13:40 - 14:40
(UTC±00)
Talk (60 min)
neo4j for the relational .NET developer
Sometimes modelling your data in a relational database like SQL server is really hard, or awkward. And modelling it in a document database, only makes a lot of sense if the data can be persisted as document without too many relations. But what if you have data that is relational, and awkward to model in a relational database? Well, then a graph database might be the right tool for the job.
However, getting started with graph databases can be a bit daunting if you have only ever worked with SQL server. Especially since most graph databases are so "far" away from your standard Microsoft domain.
But it really doesn't have to be. Graph databases, like neo4j, are awesome for a lot of scenarios. So, maybe shying away from using them because of the daunting task of getting started isn't the best solution. And honestly, getting started with neo4j as a .NET developer, isn't really that complicated.
In this talk, Chris Klug, a senior .NET developer with 25+ years of coding experience, will give you the introduction to neo4j that he wished somebody would have given to him years ago.
In just one hour, you will see how to get neo4j up and running on your computer. How you connect to it from your .NET application. And how you query it using the Cypher query language. Basically, everything you need to get started with ne04j. Or...everything you need, to go from zero to neo4j n00b...
Chris Klug
Chris Klug has been building software professionally since sometime around 2000, back when .NET was new, CSS was a suggestion, and Roy Fielding’s REST paper had just been published. Since then he has written code for everything from model agencies to online sports betting to professional sail racing, because staying in one industry sounded far too boring.
He has been a Microsoft MVP for something like 15 years (depending on when he last updated this abstract), which either means he knows a thing or two or that he just talks a lot. Possibly both, but we all know the latter is a given. These days he works at Active Solution in Stockholm, helping clients solve problems and build better systems.
When he is not writing code, Chris is usually geeking out on some form of extreme sport like skydiving, kitesurfing, snowboarding, mountain biking, or wing foiling. He loves learning new things and spends way too much time thinking about weird stuff most people never even notice.