Fun with Beer – and Graphs by Rik van Bruggen.
From the post:
I make no excuses: My name is Rik van Bruggen and I am a salesperson. I think it is one of the finest and nicest professions in the world, and I love what I do. I love it specifically, because I get to sell great, awesome, fantastic products really – and I get to work with fantastic people along the way. But the point is I am not a technical person – at all. But, I do have a passion for technology, and feel the urge to understand and taste the products that I sell. And that’s exactly what happened a couple of months ago when I joined Neo Technology, the makers and maintainers of the popular Neo4j open source graph database.
So I decided to get my hands dirty and dive in head first. But also, to have some fun along the way.
The fun part would be coming from something that I thoroughly enjoy: Belgian beer. Some of you may know that Stella Artois, Hoegaerden, Leffe and the likes come from Belgium, but few of you know that this tiny little country in the lowlands around Brussels actually produces several thousand beers.
You can read about it on the Wikipedia page: Belgian beers are good, and numerous. So how would I go about putting Belgian beers into Neo4j? Interesting challenge.
Very useful post if you:
- Don’t want to miss any Belgain beers as you drink your way through them.
- Want to drink your way up or down in terms of alcohol percentage.
- Want to memorize the names of all Belgian beers.
- Oh, want to gain experience with Neo4j. 😉