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How to Configure Couchbase’s Confluent Sink Connector
Arguably the most popular method of extract, transform, load (ETL) is using Kafka. Configuring Kafka for ETL, data pipelining or event streaming can be challenging but there are better tools. Confluent delivers the most complete distribution of Kafka, improving it...
James Powenski, Couchbase Senior Solutions Engineer
December 14, 2022
Combine Clusters to Achieve High Availability
Whether on-premises or on the public cloud, Couchbase customers have a distinct set of needs: ACID transactions, high durable writes, high availability and high performance. Couchbase’s architecture helps meet these needs while also reducing pain for DevOps and DBAs (perhaps...
James Powenski, Couchbase Senior Solutions Engineer
April 6, 2022
Durability Performance Testing With SDK 3.0+
Learn about performance testing for durable writes with SDK 3.0+ and setting up infrastructure using Couchbase’s cbc-pillowfight. Performance-testing durability with any database can be subjective and challenging because there are other factors that influence performance. Durability is the act of...
James Powenski, Couchbase Senior Solutions Engineer
December 13, 2021
So Long, Manual Backup & Restore: Introducing the Couchbase Backup Service
Good news, DevOps: manual backups are now a thing of the past. The new Couchbase Backup Service automates once-manual backup and restore tasks to give DevOps and Operations teams time to focus on more important and engaging work while keeping...
James Powenski, Couchbase Senior Solutions Engineer
October 1, 2021
How to Use Global Secondary Index Partitioning for More Than Partitions
As a field engineer, I work with customers and often see them using Couchbase features with a “thinking-out-of-the-box” approach. One such feature that I see being used more creatively is Global Secondary Index (GSI) partitions. Let’s first discuss GSI and...
James Powenski, Couchbase Senior Solutions Engineer
June 17, 2021