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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...

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....

The Roadmap to Becoming a Digital Enterprise
What is a Digital Enterprise? A digital enterprise is a business that has fully integrated digital tools and technologies across all aspects of its operations, from ideation to realization to utilization. Integrating digital tools and technologies enables your enterprise to...

How to Build a Cloud-Based Application
At this point, cloud-based applications aren’t a new concept. Many organizations have shifted from legacy systems to the cloud to build faster applications that better fulfill customer needs and meet their demands. If you’re just beginning your modernization journey, this...

Your Guide to Scaling Microservices
As applications become more complex, developers have moved from a monolithic architecture to microservices to more easily scale individual services and meet user expectations. Because of their scalability, microservices have become popular for developing modern web, mobile, and cloud-based applications....

A Guide to Backend Databases
The backend is the part of an application responsible for storing and processing data. It’s the opposite of the front end, the part of the application that users interact with. The backend typically comprises servers, application programming interfaces (APIs), and...

Introducing Couchbase Capella iQ and Capella’s Newest Capabilities
Introducing Capella iQ, a Generative AI-powered Coding Assistant Couchbase has introduced Capella iQ, a Generative AI-powered developer’s coding assistant built into the Capella Workbench. Capella iQ is designed to dramatically improve developer productivity by enabling conversations that help with writing...

What is Data Modernization? Benefits and Challenges
As the needs of both customers and organizations evolve, organizations search for solutions to meet and surpass these needs. Because the data modernization process offers improved methods for storing and analyzing data, organizations have increasingly turned to modern solutions in...

What is a Transactional Database?
Transactional databases store data in rows rather than columns to read and write data quickly. A transactional database maintains data integrity by relying on ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) properties. ACID ensures that a database is restored to its original...

What is Modern Application Development? A Guide
Modern application development is an approach that allows organizations to create and deliver applications with greater speed, flexibility, and security. It uses various technologies and processes, such as cloud-native architecture, microservices, containers, continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD), DevOps, and...

What is a Distributed Application? Definition and Examples
A distributed application is a program that runs on one or more computers simultaneously and communicates through a network. In this blog post, we’ll dive into how distributed applications work, how they differ from standalone or traditional applications, how you...

Mobile Developers: Is REST Keeping You Up At Night?
REpresentational State Transfer, commonly known as “REST”, describes a standard for programmatic communication with backend data services over the web. A REST API is a programming interface that uses HTTP requests to POST (create), GET (read), PUT (update), and DELETE...