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Kenny Bastani
Personal blog · kennybastani.comprogrammingsystems
Kenny Bastani's personal blog at kennybastani.com covers programming and systems. Since 2014, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “How Neo4j Cypher Queries are Evaluated”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kenny Bastani's blog for hands-on tutorials on Neo4j, Java and Spark, including a sentiment analysis walkthrough. The comments cite the posts as resources rather than judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about building software. Open source examples and tutorials of microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications.
Most-linked posts?
- How Neo4j Cypher Queries are Evaluated2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-10
- Getting Started with Apache Spark and Neo4j Using Docker Compose2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-10
- Strangling your systems-of-record with Microservices2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-30
- Using a Graph Database for Deep Learning Text Classification2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-27
What Hacker News says?
Here's everything you need with Java and Neo4j. You might need to swap out Google Cloud NLP, since it's prohibitively expensive for research. https://www.kennybastani.com/2019/09/sentiment-analysis-on-t...
Comment linking /2019/09/sentiment-analysis-on-twitter-data.html
on “Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (2014) [pdf]”Submitted Deep Learning Sentiment Analysis for Movie Reviews Using Neo4j as a story · 43 points
HN discussionDoes this get you closer to where you need to be? http://www.kennybastani.com/2015/03/spark-neo4j-tutorial-doc...
Comment linking /2015/03/spark-neo4j-tutorial-docker.html
on “Stonebraker Explains Oracle's Obsolescence, Facebook's Challenge”Submitted Strangling your systems-of-record with Microservices as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Neo4j Cypher Queries are Evaluated as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hierarchical Pattern Recognition as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Microservices with Polyglot Persistence Using Spring Cloud and Docker as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Event-Driven Microservices Using CQRS and Serverless as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Creating a PageRank analytics platform using Spring Boot microservices as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using a Graph Database for Deep Learning Text Classification as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using a Graph Database for Deep Learning Text Classification as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Microservices to Service Blocks Using Spring Cloud Function and AWS Lambda as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Event Sourcing in Microservices Using Spring Cloud and Reactor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Graph Analysis to Decompose Monoliths into Microservices with Neo4j as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with Apache Spark and Neo4j Using Docker Compose as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Categorical PageRank Using Neo4j and Apache Spark as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding How Neo4j Cypher Queries are Evaluated as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Collaborative Cognitive Memory in AI Systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AGI and GPT Algorithm Explained as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Synthesizing the Pinnacle of Pattern Recognition in GPT-3 and GPT-4 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Procedurally Created Reality Using Generative AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Red Herring of Consciousness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Microservices That Strangle Legacy Systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Microservices with Spring Cloud and Docker as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Apache Spark and Neo4j for Big Data Graph Analytics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Graph-based Analytics Platform as a story · 1 points
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