This Week in Neo4j – Kafka Connector, kNN Classifier, Neo4j 3.5 Release, Modeling Corporate Resources

This week saw the release of Neo4j 3.5, which includes features such as full text search, indexed backed order by queries, and off-heap transaction state. The first version of the Kafka Connector was also released, allowing data to be communicated between Neo4j's event listener and a Kafka topic. Jennifer Reif started a series of blog posts on building a full stack application with Spring and Neo4j based on the Marvel dataset. Tom Michiels, this week's featured community member, is a data-architect/scientist at Vectr.Consulting and has contributed to the APOC library. The online meetup covered iterative modeling of corporate resources in a rapidly growing company using El Dorado, a tool built by Ward Cunningham to collect metadata from various operations. Jasper Blues started writing a series of posts for young entrepreneurs on topics such as finding traffic routes in good conditions and restoring Neo4j backups.