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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Recently we’ve had a series of posts showing how to deploy Couchbase in various public clouds. Bigstep is a public cloud provider with a pretty big difference. We’re all familiar with firing up a bunch of VMs, at will, using...