I'm back after a couple of weeks of hiatus with a packed update. From a major book deadline to enterprise graph hackathons, summer is anything but slow.
- AI-First Java Book. First six chapters officially submitted. They cover concept progression, real-world problem solving, and a developer's career journey
- Customer Graph Hackathons. First hands-on event with Neo4j at an enterprise customer site, and another one coming next week
- GraphRAG Fundamentals Training. Rescheduled on O'Reilly Learning Platform; available to sign up
- Neo4j CLI. New tool for interacting with Neo4j from the command line, with agent skill support for coding tools like Claude
- Agent Instruction Protocol. Open-source repo that turns skill specs into YAML-based execution graphs modeled as process flows
- Building Agents in Java with Embabel. Dan Vega's walkthrough of this Java AI framework. It covers actions, plans, goals, and reusable components for enterprise agents
Lots of exciting things in motion — grab the links in the show notes and happy coding!
