Knowledge Base

Microservices.  Too Much of a Good Thing?

EK Team . October 30, 2020 . Blog

At GOTO Chicago 2016, a senior architect for Uber presented how, at the time, Uber had over 1,000 microservices. The brilliant minds at the ride-sharing company took this design pattern to the extreme. It did not take long to see … Continue reading

Trends in Enterprise Learning

Zach Wahl . October 28, 2020 . Blog

Lately I’ve been watching the quick maturation of learning and development concepts, practices, and technologies with interest and excitement. Organizations are paying more attention to learning and performance, how they apply it within their organization, and how it fits together … Continue reading

Agility in the Time of COVID-19

EK Team . October 19, 2020 . Blog

Six months ago millions of technology workers across the globe were abruptly pulled from our offices where we enjoyed regular and productive interactions with our colleagues, clients, and friends. We were thrust into distributed teams without a plan or the … Continue reading

Enterprise Level vs. Team Level Taxonomies

EK Team . October 15, 2020 . Blog

Many of our clients ask us how to maintain taxonomies at both the enterprise and the team level without duplicating effort, overcomplicating systems, or burdening end users with multiple metadata fields. Depending on the size of your organization, the size … Continue reading

How to Setup a .Net Core API with Neo4j

EK Team . October 15, 2020 . Blog

One of the leading technologies that we utilize at Enterprise Knowledge to help our clients make sense of their data is a graph database. Graph databases, such as Neo4j, allow software engineers to build more efficient systems that can answer questions such as:

How do I identify the relationships within my data?
Will my application scale as the dataset grows?
Can the database be easily updated as our needs change? Continue reading

Knowledge Cast – Polly Alexander of HealthStream

Zach Wahl . October 14, 2020 . Podcast

In this episode of the Knowledge Cast, EK CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Polly Alexander, Senior Manager of Knowledge Management at HealthStream. Polly Alexander is a knowledge management professional with an extensive background in public health and informatics in a … Continue reading

Why am I Mr. SPARQL?

EK Team . October 9, 2020 . Blog

Over the past few years, I have gained a lot of experience working with graph databases, RDF, and SPARQL.¹ SPARQL can be tricky for both new and experienced users as it is not always obvious why a query is returning unexpected … Continue reading

Read My Mind – Fostering Effective Communication

EK Team . October 2, 2020 . Blog

I was recently reading an article from Psychology Today entitled, “Why Didn’t You Hear What I Meant to Say?” by Leon F Seltzer, Ph.D., where the author illustrates how people trick themselves into thinking that they’ve adequately communicated with others. … Continue reading