Author: dave fauth

Neo4j – Kafka – JAAS

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked how to configure Neo4j to use JAAS with Kafka using SASL_Plaintext. While the Neo4j documentation does talk about SSL configuration, it doesn’t specifically discuss JAAS. On the Kafka side, I used a Bitnami AMI (Kafka – AMI ID bitnami-kafka-2.3.0-0-linux-debian-9-x86_64-hvm-ebs-nami (ami-0ca61ab6a3b990db7)) running on AWS. There were some configuration […]

Kafka – Neo4j – SSL Config

This blogpost provides guidance to configure SSL security between Kafka and Neo4j. This will provide data encryption between Kafka and Neo4j. This does not address ACL confguration inside of KAFKA. Self Signed Certificates This section came from https://medium.com/talking-tech-all-around/how-to-enable-and-verify-client-authentication-in-kafka-21e936e670e8Make sure that you have truststore and keystore JKSs for each server.+ In case you want a self signed […]

Neo4j – Kafka – MySQL: Configuration – Part 2

In Part 1, we configured Neo4j, Kafka and MySQL to talk using the Neo4j Kafka plugin and Maxwell’s Daemon. In part 2, I will show how data can be added into MySQL and then added/modified/deleted in Neo4j through the Kafka connector. For our dataset, I chose the Musicbrainz dataset. This dataset has several tables and […]

Neo4j – Kafka – MySQL: Configuration – Part 1

With the new Neo4j Kafka streams now available, there has been a few articles such as A New Neo4j Integration with Apache Kafka and How to leverage Neo4j Streams and build a just-in-time data warehouse and Processing Neo4j Transaction Events with KSQL and Kafka Streams and finally How to embrace event-driven graph analytics using Neo4j and Apache […]

Neo4j – Finding a doctor on the way to find coffee

I love coffee. I love finding new coffee shops and trying out great coffee roasters. Some of my favorites are Great Lakes Coffee, Stumptown Roasters in NYC’s Ace Hotel, Red Rooster (my choice for home delivery) and my go-to local coffee shop, The Grounds. The Grounds is owned by friends and you have to love […]

Neo4j – Uber H3 – Geospatial

We are going to take a slight detour with regards to the healthcare blog series and talk about Uber H3. H3 is a hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system. It comes with an API for indexing coordinates into a global grid. The grid is fully global and you can choose your resolution. The advantages and disadvantages […]

Neo4j – Leveraging a graph for healthcare search

Graph-based search is intelligent: You can ask much more precise and useful questions and get back the most relevant and meaningful information, whereas traditional keyword-based search delivers results that are more random, diluted and low-quality. With graph-based search, you can easily query all of your connected data in real time, then focus on the answers […]