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Sneak peek: What’s new in Couchbase Server 3.0!

Sneak peek: What’s new in Couchbase Server 3.0!

Over the last year or so, we have been working on a vast number of features and improvements for our next major release. Today, we are ready to pull back the curtain on Couchbase Server 3.0. With 3.0, Couchbase Architecture...

So, how do I use this libcouchbase?

So, how do I use this libcouchbase?

Some of you may have noticed that we released Couchbase 1.8 earlier today, and a new set of smart clients for various languages. For me personally this is a milestone, because libcouchbase is now a supported client for the C language. So...

Span: a London conference about scaling

Span: a London conference about scaling

Last week saw the first edition of Span, a London developer conference all about building scalable systems. 114 developers spent the day listening to eleven speakers, covering topics such as reactive programming, unified logs, the history of Erlang, stream processing,...

spymemcached makes more of Membase

spymemcached makes more of Membase

In some of the recent Membase meetups, the topic of what moxi does for clients has been discussed a bit.  The bit of background many folks didn't initially have is that moxi began life as being a way to bring...

spymemcached release candidate has 2x faster bulk loading

spymemcached release candidate has 2x faster bulk loading

Memcached and Java NIO master, Dustin Sallings, has put out a new release candidate of the world’s best Java memcached client library, spymemcached.  The most exciting headliner here is the 2x performance improvement for bulk data loading into memcached, by...

Stabilizing Couchbase Server 2.0

Stabilizing Couchbase Server 2.0

[This blog was syndicated from http://damienkatz.net/] I’m glad to report we are now pretty much going into full-on stabilization and resource optimization mode for Couchbase Server 2.0. It’s taken us a lot longer than we planned. Creating a high performance,...

Starting Membase with NodeJS

Starting Membase with NodeJS

Happily, I’ve recently found an intersection of tasks that I can roll into a single, quick, unified project.  Here’s a small subset of my to-do list… – build some automated Membase/Moxi cluster testing, with a large number of nodes –...

`startkey_docid` Behaviour

`startkey_docid` Behaviour

Today we had an interesting question pop up on Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/q/20083932/98509) in relation to the correct usage of startkey_docid. The question was prompted as the user was passing in a valid startkey and startkey_docid, however the startkey_docid appeared to...

Strata Conference

Strata Conference

I attended the Strata Conference last week and although I did not catch the talks, the buzz was definitely in the air on the show floor.    “Machine Learning,” “I am  a Data Scientist” and “we are showing off a...

Strongly Typed Views with the .NET Client Library

Strongly Typed Views with the .NET Client Library

The latest bits of the Couchbase .NET Client Library support a few different view querying options.  In this post, I'll describe those options in detail.  To play along at home, make sure you have the latest Couchbase Server installed with...

Support for Windows Services for win32 memcached

Support for Windows Services for win32 memcached

I'm pleased to announce that our memcached win32 binary for memcached 1.4.2 now supports being able to be installed as a Windows service. The distribution can be found from our labs website at which you can download at http://downloads.northscale.com/memcached-win32-1.4.2-b.zip. The...

Patrick Galbraith December 16, 2014
Surviving the Windows Wilds

Surviving the Windows Wilds

When I first started developing software, it was always my intent to write Windows software. I remember buying Borland C++ at the college bookstore and started trying to get familiar with the Windows API. Then of course a friend of...

Patrick Galbraith December 16, 2014