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Dynamic Arrays, Spill, and LET: What Changed in Excel and Why It Matters for Java Applications

In a previous article, Working with Spreadsheets in Java: A Practical Overview, we walked through the common scenarios where Java applications need to interact with spreadsheets and the categories of tools available for the job. One of the factors mentioned there was support for modern Excel formulas — a topic that deserves more space than a single bullet point. Java applications interact with Excel more often than most teams plan for: file uploads from finance, calculation logic authored in a w

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Bringing Graph Analytics to Snowflake With Neo4j

Snowflake has become a go-to platform for storing and querying operational data at scale. SQL is excellent at filtering rows, joining tables, and aggregating numbers. But there's a class of questions where SQL starts to struggle: questions about connections. Which machines in a production line depend on this one? If this component fails, what else goes down with it? Which assets play equivalent structural roles across parallel workflows? These are fundamentally questions about relationships, and

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