Howdy, is anyone in here using the Cosmos DB Graph API and Gremlin queries
in a non-trivial way? I ask because I'm really keen on the technology, but
most of the articles I find on the subject are repeated kiddie's tutorials,
and there is no discussion of how to use it in anger from a .NET
developer's perspective.

As an exercise several months ago I converted my personal "collections"
data (music, videos, books, genres, authors, etc) into a graph of about 40K
nodes and found the results to be natural and elegant. I had to write some
custom code to serialize POCOs to-and-from raw vertexes, but pleasingly the
core code to do so is barely 100 lines. I feel like I'm sitting on a gold
mine with the Cosmos Graph API, but no one seems to be mining it.

My main problem is trying to understand the Gremlin language at the TinkerPop
documentation pages <http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/3.4.1/reference/>. I
think it was written by someone who's first language isn't human. So I'm
hoping someone here is a Gremlin/Graph boffin and can perhaps help me write
some queries that have me stumped. In the meantime I'll keep trying to
digest the samples and docs, and maybe there's a forum (I forgot to look).

*Greg K*

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