An interesting, and mostly unplanned, side-effect of the ongoing advancement of my personal agent orchestration system is that it has organized itself to produce high quality pull requests for Apache TinkerPop’s documentation. What I’ve fou…
Gremlin has long claimed that it can be both imperative and declarative. It delivered this functionality by way of match() step which accepted anonymous traversals representing graph traversal patterns. While this approach technically worke…
If you’re around folks who have used Gremlin as their graph query language long enough, I think there is a tendency toward personifying him a bit. Gremlin is as much the query as he is the actor who walks around a graph collecting your data…
In my last post, Gremlin goes to Gastown, I spent some time on how Beads shapes and links tasks to help drive the execution side of agentic workflows. There is a lot of thinking from human and AI that lead up to that execution where we get
For some months now, I’ve been reading about ways to scale my usage of AI coding agents like Kiro and Claude Code while also seeking greater efficiencies in their operations in terms of the time taken to produce their output. I’ve kept find…
Apache TinkerPop recently announced the joint releases of 3.7.5 and 3.8.0. I think that makes the total number of releases of 3.x under the Apache Software Foundation to be around 75 since 2015. If you follow TinkerPop then you know that th…
The repeat() step in Gremlin has some noteworthy behavior when used with times(0). Most of us intuitively expect that times(1) means “do it once” and times(0) means “skip it completely.” But depending on where you specify times(), the seman…
In my previous blog post, “constant() Is Not inject()”, I explored the functional and conceptual differences between Gremlin’s constant() and inject() steps. At first glance, they both appear to simply stick new values into a traversal, but…
Graph databases like those powered by Apache TinkerPop provide a robust framework for working with connected data. However, as with any powerful tool, there are ways to misuse it and one such common anti-pattern is using unique values for v…
While helping someone with Gremlin traversal that made use of tree(), I realized that there are some aspects of this step that could use further explanation. To start, tree() can be used in two different ways: In the first example, tree() a…
The dedup() step has some interesting behavior when used on a Path object and could lead to some unexpected results if not taken into consideration. The following example shows some basic usage: In the prior example, the dedup() step remove…
In recent weeks there have been many questions about the local()-step both in Discord and in TinkerPop’s JIRA. I’d written on this topic once before in Use of local() but it perhaps begs a further revisit. The example that arose from Discor…