This intensive, highly practical 2-day Neo4j course will provide you with the skills required to become effective with graphs and productive with Neo4j. Join this course to learn Neo4j's excellent APIs and Cypher query language and how you can use the world's leading graph database to manage and query sophisticated connected data.

At the core of Neo4j is the property graph model. A property graph is a pragmatic model that supports easy domain modelling and rich query support. You'll learn how to model rich domains as property graphs and perform sophisticated queries over them simply by drawing (ascii-art) patterns!

While we will touch on the theoretical foundations from graph theory, the focus of this Neo4j course is most definitely practice: you will gain a thorough understanding of how to use Neo4j to best advantage across a myriad of domains (time series, social network, logistics, telecoms, etc). After completing the course, you'll be confident to design robust data models and efficient queries, the kind of things that can be laborious to pick up just from reading books.

Day 1 - Modelling and Programmatic APIs

We start with an overview of graph databases within the overall umbrella of NOSQL. We then provide an overview of all important concepts, illustrating them with some simple examples, to give a feel for Neo4j. This day is Java-centric and covers:

• Core API fundamentals
• Transactions
• Manual and Auto-Indexing
• Imperative querying in Java
• Declarative querying with the Neo4j Traverser APIs

Day 2 - The Cypher Query Language, Neo4j Server, and Production-readiness

The second day is a deep exploration of the Cypher query language designed to get you thinking in graph patterns. Once we've acquired Cypher skills, we move into the Neo4j server environment and how to write code that extends the capabilities of the database in a domain-specific fashion. Finally we wrap up the course with a discussion on production-readiness including test-driven development and design choices for production Neo4j systems. This day is more focussed on Cypher and less on Java, and covers:

• A deep dive into the Cypher query language
• Graph algorithms
• Neo4j server REST API
• Developing Neo4j server extensions
• Using Neo4j in large systems