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Regional Membase Meetups Featuring Local Users
It’s been great to see the interest grow in Membase NoSQL database technology since the open source project was established in June. There is a lot of demand for technical information and use case examples (especially about what Zynga is...
Couchbase Server 2.0: Most Common Questions (and Answers)
I just finished up a nine-week technical webinar series highlighting the features of our upcoming release of Couchbase Server 2.0. It was such a blast interacting with the hundreds of participants, and I was blown away by the level of...
CouchConf Developer Awards – Finalists Announced!
Wow! We had some really good submissions for the Couch Developer Awards. After reviewing all the submissions we have now narrowed it down to our finalists and wanted to congratulate them. The categories and their finalists are… Best application built...
More Couchbase and Java with Views, Hadoop and Mobility
I spoke at the London JUG and was probably over ambitious in trying to include our recent work on Views, Hadoop Connector and the Android Grocery Sync application in a single presentation besides demoing the “simple, fast and elastic” theme that Couchbase...
Join the bash
In the run up for the 3.0 release, we’ll be running a Bug Bash. The mission? To help us improve the quality of the Couchbase Server 3.0 release and make it the best it can be. And, yes, we will,...
JSON+SQL: How SQL Extensions are Helping SQL Adapt to Flexibility of JSON
Dzone.com is one of my favorite destinations and I started contributing some articles there on how I think the industry should move on JSON and SQL. Here is a teaser: —- How SQL Extensions are Helping SQL Adapt to Flexibility...
Kafka and Couchbase: Up and Running with the Sample Kafka Consumer in 10 Minutes
Intro Couchbase Kafka Connector 1.2.0 just shipped. Along with the various bug fixes, there is new sample code for a Kafka consumer in addition to the Kafka producer that was previously available. To quickly review the terms: A Kafka producer...
Dealing with cultural divide and advocating your team internally at NDC London
This week I’m speaking at NDC London, on how you can deal with cultural divide, internal advocacy with distributed teams. This is something that is rather close to me. In my third role working for a distributed organisation it is a different...
Three New Couchbase Books in Late 2015
Late in 2015, there were three new or updated books published about Couchbase that you need. The first is Pro Couchbase Server 2nd ed. by Couchbase's own David Ostrovsky and Mohammed Haji, as well as Yaniv Rodenski. It is 349 pages of pure goodness. Published by...
Couchbase Chennai was a success
Last month Couchbase Chennai had its first meetup with great success! They had a series of talks and welcomed its new community members! Fortunately for us they recorded them for us to share with the Couchbase Community! An Introduction...
5 reasons to sign up to our newsletter
5 Reasons to sign up to our Newsletter! Having trouble keeping up to date with all the latest news, events and what’s happening in Couchbase then you need to sign up to our Developer Newsletter! Each month you’ll get updates...
Introduction to covering indexes
What are covering indexes? In the relational/SQL world you can save query time by the judicious use of indexes: if you have an index on each column that your query touches then your DBMS can return the results without diving into...