Photo credit The NODES 2024 conference is approaching fast, and we have a lot of exciting activities, including talks, workshops, and more. Here’s what you need to know to get ready for NODES 2024. What is NODES? NODES is a free, virtual conference run by Neo4j for developers, data scientists, and other technical roles who want to learn more about graph databases and how they can be used to solve complex problems.

Photo credit Every year, Neo4j hosts the virtual event NODES 2024 - a free, technical event spanning global timezones and a variety of graph-related topics. This is one of my favorite events of the year, but it doesn’t happen without countless hours of planning and work to make it valuable to the graph community. This year, my colleague and I were put in charge of organizing the schedule, determining how sessions are lined up between the start and end time of the event.

Photo credit I have recently been working on a self-paced learning course for Spring Data Neo4j and wanted users to be able to test the database connection. Typically, in a Spring Boot application with Spring Data, you set the database credentials as properties in the application.properties file. You can run the application with just these details, but it only fails when the database URI has improper syntax. The application does not actually test the connection to see if it is valid and successfully connects.