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Embracing AI From Cloud to Edge With Google Distributed Cloud and Couchbase
Unveiled this week at Google Cloud Next, our longtime trusted partner Google announced the Google Cloud Ready Distributed Cloud program. The new program is designed to validate partner solutions on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), Google’s AI-ready modern infrastructure that customers...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
April 9, 2024
Consolidate Your Databases to Eliminate Data Sprawl, Reduce Complexity and Lower Costs
The concept of consolidation is simple, and applying its principles can bring immense benefit to any organization. But what does consolidation mean in the context of database technology? Google defines consolidation as “the action or process of combining a number of...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
March 15, 2024
Vector search is coming to Couchbase Lite, sign up for beta!
Mobile app developers know that a key to adoption is engaging users with an experience that is unique and tailored just for them. This means the app must display items and data in context with the user’s tastes, history, location,...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
March 7, 2024
FAST Data Generation With The Capella Eventing Service
Every application developer has faced the need for sample data. Whether it’s for functional testing or stress testing at scale, a large volume of meaningful data is required to see how an app actually performs under real world conditions. In...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
February 12, 2024
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,...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
October 26, 2023
Offline-first: a mindset for developing faster, more reliable mobile apps
What does offline-first mean? The term “offline-first” describes a mobile app that is built to perform most, or all, of its core functionality without access to the Internet. The concept is simple enough, but all too often this is not...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
September 18, 2023
Don’t REST – Use a Mobile Database for Apps: Couchbase Webcast Recap
I was recently honored to co-present on a webcast with my colleague and good friend, Aaron LaBeau, Sr. Developer Advocate at Couchbase. Aaron has nearly 30 years of development experience and specializes in building mobile apps, and so seemed the...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
August 17, 2023
So, you want to build a data sync solution….
Mobile apps depend on data to operate, and as a developer, how you decide to handle that data can have huge implications on app performance. To provide the best possible experience, you must ensure fast and ready access to data...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
June 6, 2023
Supercharge your Data Mesh strategy with Couchbase Capella
“Data as a Product” In the face of challenging economics and intensified customer focus, organizations are trying to lower costs and maximize efficiency – and one way they hope to do it is by treating data as a product, that...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
March 6, 2023
The Right Stuff for Edge Computing in Space
AWS Snowball + SpaceX Starlink + Couchbase Capella = More uptime, lower latency and better bandwidth usage at the edge Apps Must be Always Fast and Always on Suppose you operate popup clinics in rural villages and remote locations where...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
February 8, 2023
What is Native Mobile Development? (Benefits, Tools, Resources)
What is native mobile application development? When talking about native mobile app development, it’s good to first understand the landscape. There are approximately 6.5 billion smartphone users worldwide, and that number is growing. As smartphones become more ubiquitous and, at...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
December 27, 2022
Why You Need a Mobile Database
Mobile app usage is increasing worldwide, not only in user volume, but in daily time spent on apps. TechCrunch recently reported that mobile users now spend between four and five hours – roughly ⅓ of waking hours – on smartphone...
Mark Gamble, Dir Product & Solutions Mktg, Couchbase
November 22, 2022