Technology background deep-dive

This book was written at the intermediate data engineering level. The technology choices and use cases may stress your comfort level and require some advanced knowledge and deep dives in the hyperlinked endnote materials of this chapter. References will be supplied for you to take deeper dives into the technical.

As we discuss the necessary technology background, you will note that even this elaboration will contain additional references that contain lots of supporting examples and drill down use cases. After all, this is the use case section of the book, and all the deep concepts will need to have solid examples to enable you to grok the materials. Feel free to skip over details if you already are trained in the art! When you take deeper dives into the engineering, you will appreciate the assertions that are going to be made in the high-level use cases to follow.

Some of you will already have experience with graph technologies, property graphs...