Month: April 2018
The Couchbase Data Platform in Action: Couchbase Connect 2017 SV Demo Technical Overview
Last Fall we showed a 30 minute live demo of a full stack application written using a broad range of the Couchbase Data Platform capabilities. This was at the Couchbase Connect Silicon Valley 2017 conference. In this introductory post,...
Hod Greeley, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
April 25, 2018
Create a GraphQL Application With Node.js, NoSQL Databases
I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz around working with GraphQL and NoSQL, internally within Couchbase and externally. Since it sounds like a hot topic, I figured I’d spend some time learning about it to see how it could be...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
April 23, 2018
AKS with the Couchbase Kubernetes Operator
AKS (Azure Container Service) is the managed Kubernetes service on Microsoft Azure. It is currently in preview, so there are some things that may change down the road. In this post, I’m going to create an AKS cluster and install...
Matthew Groves
April 23, 2018
Event Sourcing | Event Logging – An Essential Microservice Pattern
As I mentioned in my previous post about how to fail with microservices, debugging a distributed system is a challenging task. Many things can go wrong, and some of them are out of our control, such as network instability, temporary...
Denis Rosa, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
April 19, 2018
Xcode Playground for Exploring Query API in Couchbase Lite 2.0
This post is a step-by-step guide for using an Xcode Playground for exploring the new querying API in Couchbase Mobile 2.0. The Couchbase Lite 2.0 Release introduces a simplified query API based on N1QL, Couchbase’s declarative query language that extends...
Priya Rajagopal, Senior Director, Product Management
April 17, 2018
Couchbase Server 5.5 Beta – now available!
Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 Beta This release is an extension of the Couchbase Data Platform but also introduces several new Enterprise Grade features – agility, performance, and manageability – all based on critical feedback from our customers. Included are many...
Tyler Mitchell
April 16, 2018
The Couchbase Data Platform in Action: The Couchbase Connect 2017 Silicon Valley Technical Demo
A Full Stack Application Built Using the Couchbase Data Platform This past year, at the annual Couchbase Connect conference in Silicon Valley, we were proud to present a technical demonstration showing much of the breadth of the Couchbase Data Platform...
Hod Greeley, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
April 13, 2018
Using the cURL Function with the Couchbase Eventing Service
Important note: This blog post contains information about a developer preview CURL function in Eventing. The CURL function will be changing in Couchbase Server 6.5, please see Using cURL with the Eventing Service: Update for more details. The Couchbase Eventing...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
April 12, 2018
Announcing the General Availability of Couchbase Mobile 2.0
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Couchbase Mobile 2.0. Couchbase Mobile extends the Couchbase Data Platform to the edge, securely managing and syncing data, from any cloud to all edge devices. Why Couchbase Mobile 2.0? This release makes...
Sachin Smotra, Director Product Management, Couchbase
April 12, 2018
Divide and Conquer: Couchbase GSI Index partitioning.
In Couchbase, data is always partitioned using the consistent hash value of the document key into vbukets which are stored on the data nodes. Couchbase Global Secondary Index (GSI) abstracts the indexing operations and runs as a distinct service within...
Keshav Murthy
April 11, 2018
Building an Observation Deck
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable. – Leslie Lamport, 1987 While those prescient words were uttered in 1987, it remains the case in...
Matt Ingenthron, Senior Director, SDK Engineering, Couchbase
April 10, 2018
Response Time Observability with the Java SDK
Previous blogs gave a better understanding on how our approach to Real Time Observability (RTO) in general helps troubleshooting distributed systems and why we chose OpenTracing as a foundation and public API. If you haven’t already, you can check out...
Michael Nitschinger
April 9, 2018