After the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook for a whopping 19 billion dollars, lots of start-ups are trying to build scalable chat services where the core functionality still remains the ability to allow users to communicate with each other. On top of that, they are trying to build innovative services that can give them a differentiating factor.
In this recipe, you will learn about some of the industry usages of Neo4j in chat applications, which form the backbone of social networks
Although this recipe consists of explaining the various use cases of Neo4j in chat applications, we will still encourage you to build something useful from the sample data available. To do this, perform the following steps:
Set up a Neo4j instance using the recipes covered in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Neo4j, of this book. This installation process will depend on your preference for your machine OS type.