Neo4J in the Software Developer Job Listing

[shammond42]

I notice that Neo4J was listed as a desired skill in the Paizo Software Developer job listing, http://paizo.com/paizo/about/jobs.

I've looked at using the graph database to model things in the medical space at my current job. The relationship between a drug and a symptom is interesting along its edge. Is the drug a treatment for the symptom or is the symptom a side effect of the drug.

I am very curious how Paizo uses a graph database, if you don't mind sharing.

Thanks,
Steve

[Gary Teter]

I think I'm going to decline to describe this for now. We're not using it in a deployed application yet and I'm wary of announcing things before they're ready.

[shammond42]

Fair enough. When you can share, I'd love to hear about it.

Thanks,
Steve

[Matt Thomason]

If I had to take an educated guess, it would be to do a "recommended items" section for people based on their previous purchases, and upon related items determined by what others had bought together with that item.