
The Benefits of Building a DevOps Environment
In this article, we’ll provide a clear understanding of DevOps, break down terminology and concepts associated with it, review the benefits and challenges of adoption, and go over the steps to adopting a DevOps model. What is DevOps? DevOps is...

How Tesco Utilizes Couchbase to Manage Millions of Products During Peak Black Friday Traffic
In the Digital Economy, retail and eCommerce companies compete based on customer experience and operational efficiency – customers expect personalized engagements, relevant information, and instant gratification, but their expectations have to be met while reducing operational costs and time to...

Capella App Services: Real-time Log Streaming to Datadog
In an earlier post, we discussed the fundamentals of the Log Streaming feature on Capella App Services. App Services logs can be streamed in real-time to third-party observability platforms such as Datadog or collectors, hosted in customer premises. Log Streaming...

GenAI: A New Tool in the Developer Toolbox
Developers craft software that both delight consumers and deliver innovative applications for enterprise users. This craft requires more than just churning out heaps of code; it embodies a process of observing, noticing, interviewing, brainstorming, reading, writing and rewriting specifications; designing,...

What is Cloud Monitoring? Types, Best Practices, Tools
Cloud monitoring is the process of monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting cloud-based systems, applications, and infrastructure to ensure they’re running smoothly, efficiently, and securely. It involves collecting data and metrics from various sources, such as cloud computing platforms, applications, and services....

Capella App Services: Enhancing Observability with Real-Time Log Streaming Support
Capella App Services is a fully managed Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS), specifically tailored to mobile, IoT and edge applications. It empowers developers and organizations to seamlessly integrate with Couchbase Capella and synchronize data across various devices that use Couchbase Lite. It combines...

Learning on the Couch with FreeCodeCamp: Intro to Code Editors
Software Development as a field can be very overwhelming. There seems to be an endless stream of new tools, languages, frameworks and we often have no idea where to start. Among those various tools is a code editor. We’re going...

Top 10 reasons why the Couchbase booth is a must-visit at AWS re:Invent 2023
AWS re:Invent returns to Vegas at the end of this month and they are expecting 65,000 people to flock to the Venetian. There will be plenty of exciting sessions, training and Expo sponsors vying for their attention. Here is why...

Quantic Improves Developer Experience, Drives Scalability
Quantic is a fast-growing startup that helps businesses streamline their operations by using a full-featured cloud-based point of sale (POS) platform, including devices carried around by staff. Initially, our company primarily focused on restaurant operations. We weren’t planning for the...

Couchbase Capella: Advantages in Speed, Functionality, and TCO Over Redis
Altoros, an IT consulting organization known for database comparison, has released their latest independent benchmark, commissioned by Couchbase. The benchmark assesses the DBaaS solutions provided by Couchbase and Redis. Using the widely recognized YCSB standard for benchmarking NoSQL databases, this...

Scraping Database Metrics from Couchbase Capella with Prometheus
In this blog post, the first in a series, we’re going to show you how to set up a Prometheus server and connect it to your Couchbase Capella Database in order to collect metrics. What is Prometheus? Prometheus is a...

Cloud to Edge AI with a Mobile Database Platform
Edge computing is a technical architecture that extends data processing from the cloud to the edge, moving it closer to the point of interaction, including onto mobile devices. From the database perspective, a typical architecture includes a database in the cloud,...