about the authors

 
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Mark Needham

Mark is a product marketing engineer at ClickHouse, where he creates short-form videos and writes blog posts about real-time data warehouses. He also works on developer experience, simplifying the getting-started experience by making product tweaks and improvements to the documentation.

Mark has worked in the data infrastructure field for the last decade, first at Neo4j on graph databases and then at StarTree on real-time analytics with Apache Pinot. He has been blogging about his experiences with writing software for the last 15 years at markhneedham.com and has created many short educational videos on data and AI topics at https://www.youtube.com/@learndatawithmark.

He tweets as @markhneedham.

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Michael Hunger

Michael Hunger has been passionate about software development for more than 35 years. For the last 14 years, he has been working on the open source Neo4j graph database, filling many roles, most recently as head of product innovation and developer product strategy. Before joining Neo4j, he consulted in large Java projects and wrote his fair share of SQL code for Oracle, Informix, and MySQL databases. He also created the Jequel SQL DSL in 2006, which was later merged into similar efforts.