An Inquisitive Thinker

Till the early 2000s, the companies used the monolithic architecture for developing applications. This was basically a traditional software program which was single-tiered with multiple software components combined into an application. The software components of the app were tightly coupled and assembled  as a single executable/deployable unit. Hence, to make a change in this type of structure of application, it required to update the code base of the entire stack and then deploy it again which was really time-consuming and inefficient. It had its advantages like easy deployment, simple testing and debugging but had way more complicated disadvantages like slower development, scalability, availability, reliability,etc. This gradually led to various problems as the demand for the IT services increased which required an upgrade in the then existing IT infrastructure. One such company which faced this issue with the monolithic architecture was Netflix. It was not able to keep up to its...

Attended the 2nd graph database event - "Graphtopia : Navigating the Data Landscape" at Microsoft Reactor, Bengaluru on 11th February 2023. Had an amazing time at the knowledge-sharing event hosted by Siddhant Agarwal . It was great to hear about various topics from different speakers with admirable experience & knowledge.  I would like to thank all the speakers for enlightening about various concepts relating to graph database, Data platform, AI-ML & cloud. Siddhant Agarwal hosted this amazing event and shared some amazing use-cases and examples of graph databases & especially about Neo4j . He explained the importance of graph databases, use-cases, examples, working, etc. in the first meetup and he carried it forward by walking through the practical use of the Cypher queries in the Neo4j sandbox. Keeping in mind the audiences' familiarity with the concept of graph databases and also the awareness about Neo4j, he tried commendably well to take the audience f...