Graph Applications for the Enterprise, FAST - David Colebatch @ GraphConnect NY 2013
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LightMesh quickly launched its next generation SaaS CMDB despite the challenge of a complex business domain by leveraging the xnlogic framework with Neo4j. In this talk, David will take you through some of the gotchas of enterprise application development with graphDB and how to solve them.
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Graph Applications for the Enterprise, FAST - David Colebatch @ GraphConnect NY 2013
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- 15. Who
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- 17. We? • Toronto-based Graph Database services company • Partner with Neo Technology • Organizers of GraphTO GraphTO • Authors of the popular Pacer gem, an extensible graph traversal library David
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- 74. #fails David
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- 85. #fails Often CRUD Only • • One screen for each record type UI maps to table structure • ...or rather, is constrained by the table structure David
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- 96. #fails Relationships to one-degree • • • “This thing is related to that thing” Slow to traverse relationships Inhibits discovery by serendipity David
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- 141. Gather Requirements Define Data Model Define Security Constraints Iterate! Develop Business Logic Implement API Implement UI Test Training Acceptance. Go/No Go David
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- 159. Gather Requirements Define Data Model Define Security Constraints Iterate! Develop Business Logic Implement API Implement UI Test Training Acceptance. Go/No Go David
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- 200. framework • • • RESTful API driven application framework Declare your model, define your business logic Framework then produces a domain-specific JSON and xml api David
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- 209. Advanced
- 210. Features • • • • Composable models vs Inheritance Fine-grained security History Graph for temporal queries Multi-tenant: • • One framework, multiple applications Customer segregation David
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- 219. Composable
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- 229. Composable
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- 239. • Composition promotes code reuse (DRY) • Here, color shows the delta between a Person and a Business model (Hypothetical) • User permissions are tied to the “Part” • Parts define properties, relationships, actions and traversals David
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- 248. Simple
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- 250. Definitions module YourApplication module ContactDetails pacer_vertex property :address, type: :text property :lat, type: :numeric property :lon, type: :numeric end end module YourApplication module HasEmployer pacer_vertex to_one :employer end end David
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- 273. API GET /is [ 'contact_details', 'has_accounts', 'has_employer', 'has_friends', 'corporate_details', 'jurisdiction'] GET /model [ 'person', 'business'] Parts The building blocks of your application Models Composed of Parts David
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- 282. Metadata
- 283. Driven GET /is/contact_details/metadata { update_access: true, create_access: true, delete_access: true, parts: [ 'record', 'contact_details' ], descriptive_parts: [ 'contact_details' ], properties: { name: { name: 'name', label: 'Name', type: 'text', unit: null, default: null, validations: { allow_blank: true }, part: 'record', index: true }, ... Includes: 1)Current-user’s access rights 2)Property definitions 3)Relationship definitions 4)Validation rules 5)Actions/Jobs 6)Queries/Traversals David
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- 302. URLs
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- 305. Traversals GET /model/person/rel/employer [ { meta: { xnid: '/model/business/2028', model_name: 'business', rendered: [ 'record', 'contact_details', ‘has_accounts’, ‘corporate_details’], format: 'partial' }, id: 2028, name: 'Acme Bank', rel: {}, description: 'A very large FI.', created_at: ‘2012-10-02 12:07:31, updated_at: null, address: '88 Fairtrade Blvd., NYC.', lat: '40.755622', lon: '-73.977221', company_url: 'http://www.acme.com', display_name: 'FI - US - ACME' ...}, Returns: 1)All employers of all people David
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- 405. What? • • Eliminate “infrastructure” development cycles • • • Shorter Time To Market Bootstrap HTML5 User Interface Software Project Risk Reduction Powered by Graph™ - Answer the hard Q’s David
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