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Couchbase DCP Rollback and How QA Tests Them

Couchbase DCP Rollback and How QA Tests Them

Introduction   In this post I will describe how Couchbase QA team goes to great lengths to test Couchbase products, using DCP Rollbacks as an example, and first giving background on what DCP is and what a DCP rollback is....

What are the retail lessons we can learn from the festive period?

What are the retail lessons we can learn from the festive period?

Nowhere is this truer than in the retail sector, which saw demand rise exponentially and, in some cases, unexpectedly. Ten years ago this might not have presented a problem, as most bricks-and-mortar retailers would have welcomed queues of customers winding...

Couchbase Weekly, January 25 2017

Couchbase Weekly, January 25 2017

Learn what’s latest in the Couchbase Community. Let us know if we missed anything at @couchbasedev, @couchbase or #Couchbase. Highights This Week January 26: Applying N1QL and FTS over machine learning January 24: Couchbase Partner Day January 24: Nuts and Bolts of...

Docker 1.13 Management Commands

Docker 1.13 Management Commands

Docker 1.13 was released yesterday, congratulations! A quick summary of the key features: Compose file to deploy Swarm mode services Improved CLI backwards compatibility Clean-up commands CLI restructured Monitoring and Build improvements Learn more details about these features in this video...

Deploy Docker Compose Services to Swarm

Deploy Docker Compose Services to Swarm

Docker Swarm vs Docker Compose? Now they work together! Docker 1.13 introduced a new version of Docker Compose. The main feature of this release is that it allow services defined using Docker Compose files to be directly deployed to Docker...

Microservice using AWS Serverless Application Model and Couchbase

Microservice using AWS Serverless Application Model and Couchbase

Amazon Web Services introduced Serverless Application Model, or SAM, a couple of months ago. It defines simplified syntax for expressing serverless resources. SAM extends AWS CloudFormation to add support for API Gateway, AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB. This blog will show how to...

Starting a Kubernetes 1.5.x cluster

Starting a Kubernetes 1.5.x cluster

Kubernetes 1.5.0 was released just about a month ago! Key theme for the release are: StatefulSets (ex-PetSets) StatefulSets are beta now (fixes and stabilization) Improved Federation Support New command: kubefed DaemonSets Deployments ConfigMaps Simplified Cluster Deployment Improvements to kubeadm HA Setup for...

Couchbase Customer Advisory Note – Security

Couchbase Customer Advisory Note – Security

In light of the recent widespread news about security vulnerabilities in MongoDB and Elasticsearch, we want to proactively remind our customers of Security Best Practices for Couchbase. At this time there have been no known ransomware attacks on Couchbase, and...

New to NoSQL?  Meet N1QL!

New to NoSQL? Meet N1QL!

A few years ago NoSQL might have sounded like a alien monster, but given the advances in the technology and how modern web and mobile applications are storing and accessing data, it is and has become a critical part of...

Couchbase Weekly, December 21 2016

Couchbase Weekly, December 21 2016

Learn what’s latest in the Couchbase Community. Let us know if we missed anything at @couchbasedev, @couchbase or #Couchbase. Announcements This Week ​ Kafka Connector 3.0.0 GA released — provides functionality to stream, filter, and transform events from Couchbase Server to Kafka...

Couchbase Weekly, December 13 2016

Couchbase Weekly, December 13 2016

Learn what’s latest in the Couchbase Community. Let us know if we missed anything at @couchbasedev, @couchbase or #Couchbase. Announcements This Week .NET SDK 2.3.1 update released — enhancements in data structures + full-text search APIs + known bug fixes Node.js SDK...

Docker on Windows 2016 Server

Docker on Windows 2016 Server

This blog is the first part of a multi-part series. The first part showed how to set up Windows Server 2016 as a VirtualBox VM. This second part will show how to configure Docker on Windows 2016 VM. Start an elevated PowerShell...