Faster Integration Tests with Reusable Testcontainers

Wed, 17 Aug 2022 11:05:05 +0000

In my job, I often need integration tests against a Neo4j database. My software is written in Java, and so is Neo4j. Neo4j is embeddable, too. So, in theory, I could just depend on the embedded version, open a connection, test my stuff and call it a day. It would not be a different engine, it would be - at least from a query-engine and planer perspective - the same thing, in contrast to using an embedded SQL database as a drop-in for PostgresQL for example.

Native GraphQL API with Neo4j AuraDB on Heroku

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 07:29:38 +0000

In my first article on Foojay, I would like to present one of many possible approaches to create a GraphQL API. I work at Neo4j , so it should not be a big suprise that I will use the Graph database with the same name as a backend for the application.

In this post I will cover a couple of things and I’ll start with a simple use case. Conceptually we will look at the “Schema-First” vs “Object-First” discussions and why - at least in my opinion - GraphQL can be seen much more like an object mapping concept than a query language itself. You will learn that while Neo4j is a Graph database, it does not have a built-in GraphQL layer. It does however a great query language called “Cypher” .

Michael Simons on foojay.io - Friends of OpenJDK

Faster Integration Tests with Reusable Testcontainers

Native GraphQL API with Neo4j AuraDB on Heroku