Tag: devbuild
Couchbase Server 5.5 Beta – now available!
Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 Beta This release is an extension of the Couchbase Data Platform but also introduces several new Enterprise Grade features – agility, performance, and manageability – all based on critical feedback from our customers. Included are many...
Tyler Mitchell
April 16, 2018
Building an Observation Deck
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable. – Leslie Lamport, 1987 While those prescient words were uttered in 1987, it remains the case in...
Matt Ingenthron, Senior Director, SDK Engineering, Couchbase
April 10, 2018
Response Time Observability with the Java SDK
Previous blogs gave a better understanding on how our approach to Real Time Observability (RTO) in general helps troubleshooting distributed systems and why we chose OpenTracing as a foundation and public API. If you haven’t already, you can check out...
Michael Nitschinger
April 9, 2018
What OpenTracing Is and Why It’s Important
We have previously discussed why system observability is important in distributed systems and the challenges that it can help to overcome – if you missed it, you can see Matt Ingenthron’s introduction to the problem here. Next, we will discuss why...
Mike Goldsmith, Senior SDK Engineer, Couchbase
April 9, 2018
Authentication With X.509 Certificates
Data security is an important aspect of every modern data platform. With micro-service based architectures becoming more of a common pattern across every high-scale app, existing password based authentication mechanisms for user authentication is hard to manage at scale, let...
Perry Krug
April 4, 2018
Auto-FailOver Features in Couchbase Server 5.5
Couchbase further improves high availability for mission-critical deployments and reduces operator intervention. Couchbase enhances the detection of common disk failures and automatically fails over the node with bad disks saving operators time and energy. It also handles multiple server failures...
Geospatial Search With ASP.NET Core, Aurelia, Google Maps
Geospatial search is now fully supported in Couchbase Server 5.5. Check out the Couchbase Server 5.5 announcement, and download the developer build for free right now. In this post, I’m going to demonstrate the geospatial capabilities of Couchbase Full Text...
Matthew Groves
March 23, 2018
IPv6 Galore With Couchbase
Every single device on the internet, whether it be a laptop computer, cell phone, camera, or even your TV has an IP address. The total number of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses is over 4 billion, which is far...
Perry Krug
March 22, 2018
Index Partitioning in Couchbase Server 5.5
Index partitioning is a new feature available in Couchbase Server 5.5. Check out the Couchbase Server 5.5 Developer Build announcement and download the release for free right now. In this post, I’m going to cover: Why you might want to use index...
Matthew Groves
March 19, 2018
Auditing Couchbase N1QL Statements
Couchbase Server 5.5 includes the ability to keep a record of all N1QL actions taken by users. This is part of Couchbase’s more general audit functionality, introduced in 5.0. Auditing is only available in Enterprise edition. Auditing lets the administrators...
Johan Larson
March 19, 2018
Using Couchbase Analytics with Node.js and JavaScript
Note: This post uses the the Couchbase Analytics Data Definition Language as of the version 5.5 preview release. For updates and information on breaking changes in newer versions, please refer to Changes to the Couchbase Analytics Service. The Couchbase Analytics Service,...
Nic Raboy, Developer Advocate, Couchbase
March 19, 2018
New Features in Index Service in Couchbase Server 5.5
In the last major release, Couchbase Server 5.0, we introduced Plasma – New Storage Engine and also the support for Index Replicas in the Index Service. We have continued to build on these new features in our upcoming release. The themes...
Venkat Subramanian, Product Manager
March 16, 2018