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Hosted by jmhreif · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 85 episodes
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A bite-sized tech podcast for busy developers where we’ll briefly cover technical topics, new snippets, and more in short time blocks. Your host, Jennifer Reif, is an avid developer and problem-solver with special interest in data, learning, and all things technology.
jmhreif hosts Breaktime Tech Talks, a technology show with 85 episodes published.
In this episode, I sit down with John Willis , author of The DevOps Handbook and Rebels of Reason. We discuss how lessons from John's five decades of technology shifts apply to organizations the AI era. Highlights: The "
This week, hear the latest updates on writing the Java book and prepping meetup tours, as well as a thought-provoking article on developer cognition in the age of AI. Deep dive into lambdas: concise, one-line rules for s
In this episode, hear my latest writing progress on the Java book, a couple of new DZone blog posts, and upcoming meetups and podcast guests. I also dig into an article on how AI is reshaping developer relations. Made st
Recap of my week, with several different topics where I expanded my knowledge or surfaced some recurring patterns in my efforts. Highlights: Repeated prompt iteration can cause LLMs to get stuck in unhelpful loops or pro
This week included reviewing abstracts for NODES developer conference returning this fall, making progress on the book, and other exciting things happening within the team. Highlights: Schedule for Neo4j’s free virtual N
Wrapping up a busy week of GraphRAG training and book writing with two topics worth unpacking: what we actually mean when we call AI "intelligent," and what a recent article reveals about the shifting landscape for softw
In this episode, I sit down with Roie Schwaber-Cohen, a software engineer and developer advocate at Pinecone, to talk about smarter ways to build with AI — without burning through tokens or your patience! What we cover:
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 c
A packed week of travel, debugging, writing, and reading. I share what I learned and ran into this week as a developer. Highlights: 🗣️ Spoke at the JavaMUG (Java Metroplex User Group) meetup in Dallas — highly recommend
A quieter week, but still full of forward motion — from clearing the Neo4j developer blog backlog and making progress on the upcoming Java book, to lining up upcoming speaking events. Plus, two developer-focused content
This week, I prepped for upcoming events, tweaked and strategized some existing processes, and found more data on how defining a schema can produce better knowledge graph construction. Highlights: Prepped for two upcomin
In this episode, I reflect on career growth in tech after speaking with a group of students, along with a few technical topics I explored this week — from Cypher optimization to scaling graph databases. 💡 Highlights Car
Back from a short holiday, I caught up on a few things this week — including the inevitable yak shaving. Highlights: 📖 Book Progress: wrapped up another chapter draft. I've been finding that blocking larger chunks of de
My recap of virtual presentations, live streams, and workshop support — sharing wins, lessons from a humbling live coding session, and a fascinating article on solving long-running LLM memory problems. Highlights: Delive
This week, I share hard-won lessons from building a GraphRAG application with Neo4j in Python, plus standout tips from Lize Raes's Devoxx Belgium talk on taking Langchain4j apps to production. GraphRAG with Neo4j Built a
Hear my recent experience at the Devnexus conference in Atlanta, where I delivered two sessions and connected with so many amazing people! Devnexus session 1: "Agents, Tools, and MCP, Oh My! Next Level AI Concepts for De
Jennifer shares highlights from a week full of spontaneity and preparation. Highlights: The Bootiful Podcast (Coffee + Software) with Josh Long Impromptu livestream with Josh on building a Spring + Neo4j application with
In this episode, hear my reflections on eight years as a Developer Advocate at Neo4j - learning in public, teaching before feeling “ready”, and navigating the constant balance between deep technical work and community en
Fresh back from Jfokus in Stockholm! This week, I'm sharing highlights from the conference and diving into advanced Cypher techniques that make graph databases shine. Highlights: Jfokus 2025 recap: Viking themes, inspiri
Hear about my hard-won lessons from loading a large-scale book dataset into Neo4j with Ollama embeddings, plus a preview of exciting new vector search features. Highlights: Data Loading Battle Stories Fixing Ollama OpenA
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