Making Graph Data Easier with Open Initiatives with Denise Gosnell

This episode features an interview with Denise Gosnell, Principal Product Manager at Amazon Web Services. At AWS, Denise leads product and strategy for Amazon Neptune, a fully managed graph database service. Her career centers on her passion for examining, applying, and advocating for the applications of graph data. Denise has also authored, patented, and spoken on graph theory, algorithms, databases, and applications across all industry verticals.

In this episode, Sam sits down with Denise to discuss graph initiatives, the future of developer models, and what Denise learned from hiking the Appalachian Trail.

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“We just open sourced something called graph-explorer, which is something for the community by the community, Apache 2.0 license. graph-explorer is a low-code visualization tool. But, the best part about it is that it works for JanusGraph, it works for Blazegraph, it works for all of these graph models that we've talked about, because we've got this divided graph community, but it was written to work with all graphs. [...] Today it's all, ‘Here's your Lego blocks and build one on your own. If you want to go ahead and fork Jupyter Notebook and figure out a way to get that D3 force-directed graph way out to pop up, have fun.’ It's the first time that we've had a unified way across graph vendors and graph implementations to have a way to visualize your graph data in one tool that's open source.” – Denise Gosnell

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Episode Timestamps:

(01:17): What open source data means to Denise

(04:27): How Denise got interested in computer science

(08:39): Denise’s work on graph initiatives

(14:30): How Denise’s work at LDBC relates to SQL standards

(23:43): The future of developer models

(29:43): One question Denise wishes to be asked

(34:05): Denise’s advice for graph practitioners

(37:37): Executive producer, Audra Montenegro's backstage takeaways

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Links:

LinkedIn - Connect with Denise

The Practitioner’s Guide to Graph Data