Acknowledgments

This book has been some time in the making, so first and foremost a big thank you goes out to all of our families and friends who tirelessly stood by us, put up with us, and made those late evening coffees to keep us going through the many additional late hours of work required to write this book. Thank you!

First, we’d like to thank Open Credo, the company for whom we currently work (or worked) while writing this book, for the opportunity afforded us to be able to share and contribute our experiences to this book—mostly after hours, but for those precious paid hours as well. This was most appreciated!

A big thanks to the Neo4j guys, Jim Webber and Ian Robinson in the UK, Michael Hunger in Germany, and the whole clan, for their continued work on Neo4j, but most importantly, for their useful comments and feedback in helping us fine-tune this book appropriately. It was great having the UK guys just down the hall from our Open Credo office so we could call on them for help with some of those “interesting” challenges.

Thanks to Karen Miller, our development editor at Manning, for her endless patience and understanding over this period, plus the entire Manning team for the fantastic effort they put out to finally get us to this point. It was hard work, and we ended up doing a fair few rounds, but we are grateful for their support and guidance and for the solid product that has emerged as a result.