Eifrem: Multiple countries and US states used Neo4j for COVID contact tracing
Emil Eifrem · Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Company from Scratch with Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem · Feb 10, 2022 · at 38:15
Neo4j CEO Emil Eifrem explains how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated demand for graph databases in contact tracing and supply chain mapping.
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“So a ton of people will have ton of countries, as well as companies, as well as states in the US and things like that. Have used Neo for J to do contact tracing of COVID”
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