This Prototype tries to resolve the biggest hurdle of connecting our services together. This is not possible in a sane way using our current approach.

With this Prototype we can explore using the combination of GraphQL and the Neo4j Graph Database for achieving the connected nature of a social graph with better development experience as we do not need to connect data by our own any more through weird table structures etc.

Advantages:

easer data structure

better connected data

easy to achieve "recommendations" based on actions relations

more performant and better to understand API

better API client that uses caching

We still need to evaluate the drawbacks and estimate the development cost of such an approach

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