Category: Best Practices and Tutorials

Use Docker to Deploy a Containerized Java with Couchbase Web Application

Use Docker to Deploy a Containerized Java with Couchbase Web Application

Not too long ago I wrote about containerizing a Node.js RESTful API and Couchbase Server to demonstrate how easy it is to deploy web applications in a quick and reliable fashion.  In that guide we created a simple API, built...

Managing REST APIs with Swagger (video)

Managing REST APIs with Swagger (video)

Couchbase incorporated Swagger into our documentation a few months ago. “Swagger” refers to an ecosystem of tools and other resources for managing REST APIs. Core to Swagger is the Swagger specification. (The group behind Swagger donated the spec to the...

Querying Couchbase Sync Gateway using Postman

Querying Couchbase Sync Gateway using Postman

This post discusses a convenient way to query, explore and test the REST API exposed by the Couchbase Mobile Sync Gateway using the Postman Chrome Developer tool. Sync Gateway exposes a REST, Batch & Stream interface that allows clients interact with...

Create a Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Jenkins and Java

Create a Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Jenkins and Java

Lately I’ve been working a lot with Jenkins to run Java JAR files for continuous deployment of one of my applications.  In case you haven’t seen it, the keynote demonstration given at Couchbase Connect 2016 used Jenkins to build and...

Getting Started with Couchbase Lite in your iOS App : Part1

Getting Started with Couchbase Lite in your iOS App : Part1

This post looks at  how you can get started with Couchbase Lite in your iOS App. Couchbase Lite is an embedded JSON database that can work standalone, in a P2P network, or with a Sync Gateway as a remote endpoint. While we will...

Import Your MongoDB Collection Data into Couchbase Server with Golang

Import Your MongoDB Collection Data into Couchbase Server with Golang

If you’ve been keeping up, you’ll remember I wrote a few tutorials around converting your MongoDB powered Node.js applications to Couchbase.  These included a MongoDB Query Language to N1QL tutorial as well as a Mongoose to Ottoman tutorial.  These were...

Docker Node.js Deployment With Couchbase

Docker Node.js Deployment With Couchbase

Docker is becoming increasingly popular and I’ve been slowly introducing it into my projects.  It makes it easy to distribute your applications because regardless of where you deploy your containers to, the experience will be the same. Let’s see how...

Working with Arrays in Couchbase with N1QL – Video Tutorial

Working with Arrays in Couchbase with N1QL – Video Tutorial

In a recent article, I wrote about flattening and querying arrays in Couchbase using N1QL.  That article was inspired by a popular question in the Couchbase Forums.  After publishing the article, I felt a write-up alone couldn’t do it justice...

Codenvy, Eclipse Che, Docker, and Couchbase: Coding in the Cloud at Devoxx US

Codenvy, Eclipse Che, Docker, and Couchbase: Coding in the Cloud at Devoxx US

This week Couchbase was at Devoxx US.  Devoxx is a hugely influential conference series, well known in Europe.  This was the first one to take place in the United States. While I was there I had a chance to talk...

TNDP Episode #16: The MEAN Stack for Application Development

TNDP Episode #16: The MEAN Stack for Application Development

I am pleased to announce that the latest episode of The NoSQL Database Podcast titled, The Mean Stack for Application Development, has been published to all the popular podcasting networks.  In this episode I have special guest Jonathan Casarrubias from...

NDP Episode #15: Cassandra and the Tabular Database

NDP Episode #15: Cassandra and the Tabular Database

I am pleased to announce that the latest episode of The NoSQL Database Podcast titled, Cassandra and the Tabular Database, has been published to all the major podcasting networks.  In this episode, special guest speaker Tim Berglund and I discuss Cassandra...

Migrate From MongoDB to Couchbase with N1QL

Migrate From MongoDB to Couchbase with N1QL

Customers often tell us they’re preparing to migrate from MongoDB to Couchbase. They come, in part, because they’re tired of the problems they’ve experienced learning how to query MongoDB. Couchbase with N1QL provides a better alternative, especially for scaling up...