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Join Us for a New Webcast: New Year, New UI
Join us on January 18th for a live, free webcast: “New Year, New UI”. The Couchbase Capella UI had a recent developer experience refresh. In the upcoming webcast, I’ll take you through a live tour. There won’t be any slides,...
Matthew Groves
January 5, 2023
DevIntersection 2022 Recap
As a sponsor of the DevIntersection 2022 conference in Las Vegas, Couchbase was able to showcase its NoSQL database solutions to the attendees. We had a booth in the expo hall and a speaking session where I discussed caching. Finally,...
Matthew Groves
December 19, 2022
How to Model Data: A Guide To JSON Data Modeling
When beginning to learn about document databases, it’s nice to have a grasp of JSON data modeling basics. This will help you navigate the space and topics easier having an expanded vocabulary on the subject. Experience with a traditional relational...
Matthew Groves
November 18, 2022
Developer Velocity on the Stack Overflow Podcast
I was fortunate to be a guest on the Stack Overflow podcast recently. The topic was “Developer Velocity”, which was something that my fellow guest (and long-time developer community compatriot) Cory House wanted to discuss. What is Developer Velocity? In...
Matthew Groves
November 11, 2022
6 Types of Data Models (With Examples)
In part 2 of the “how to model data” series, we’ll look at a variety of logical models, their strengths and weaknesses, and pros and cons. Part 1 of this series covered the three steps of data modeling: conceptual, logical,...
Matthew Groves
October 26, 2022
What is Data Modeling? Conceptual, Physical, Logical
Data modeling is the process of planning a structure to represent how information and relationships between information will be stored in your system. This post is a brief introduction to data modeling, as well as three progressive types of data...
Matthew Groves
October 7, 2022
ASP.NET Core CRUD with NoSQL: Part 5
This ASP.NET Core CRUD series is coming to end. We’ve covered setup (part 1), reading with SQL++ (part 2), reading with key-value (part 3), and creating/updating (part 4). In this last post, we’ll look at the D in CRUD: deleting....
Matthew Groves
August 2, 2022
Couchbase vs MongoDB: NoSQL Misconceptions Part 5
Misconceptions on NoSQL have been around for a long time. This blog series is now wrapping up with a discussion of what it means to be “most dreaded” and what it means to give memory to a database. Be sure...
Matthew Groves
July 27, 2022
Couchbase vs MongoDB: NoSQL Misconceptions Part 4
Misconceptions about NoSQL have been around as long as NoSQL itself. It’s always good to get different perspectives, and so this blog series continues. I’ll be discussing NoSQL misconceptions, specifically when it comes to two of the top document database...
Matthew Groves
July 21, 2022
Comparing Couchbase Capella vs CosmosDB
CosmosDB is Microsoft’s NoSQL offering that’s exclusive to Microsoft Azure. It used to be called DocumentDB, but they changed the name and added some interesting new features. Let’s go a little deeper on it and explore its strategy, documentation, what...
Matthew Groves
July 19, 2022
Couchbase vs. MongoDB: NoSQL Misconceptions Part 3
Misconceptions about NoSQL have been around as long as NoSQL itself. It’s always good to get different perspectives, and so this blog series continues. I’ll be discussing NoSQL misconceptions, specifically when it comes to two of the top document database...
Matthew Groves
July 12, 2022
ASP.NET Core CRUD with NoSQL: Part 4
ASP.NET CRUD apps include interaction with data that consists of create, read, update, and delete. In part 1, we setup a basic ASP.NET Core project. In part 2, we added the first read endpoint, using a SQL++ query against wishlist...
Matthew Groves
June 28, 2022