{"id":16666,"date":"2024-12-17T11:09:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T19:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/?p=16666"},"modified":"2025-03-07T03:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:23:26","slug":"year-in-review-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/year-in-review-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Couchbase Wrapped 2024 Developer Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The year end is once again upon us, the perfect time to celebrate what we\u2019ve accomplished together as a community of developers. This wrap reel is not designed to be complete, but rather to cherry pick some highlights. Our developer community continues to grow, and we are in awe of what you build. We are here to engage with you, to innovate in our product, run and contribute to events, and serve our customers. 2025 is gearing up to be another great year for Couchbase.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Product highlights<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the age of AI, Couchbase led the way this year in making our developer data platform for critical AI applications. It\u2019s packed full of new AI features, with much more besides.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/capella-support-for-azure-dbaas\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capella on Azure<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; At the start of the year, we announced Azure support for Capella, true to our mission is to make Capella more accessible for developers and teams. By extending Capella to Azure, organizations can use Capella across all three major cloud providers and have the flexibility to support their multicloud and hybrid cloud strategies. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/partners\/microsoft\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more about our partnership with Microsoft<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/couchbase-capella-iq-general-availability\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capella iQ<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 &#8211; Our AI-powered coding assistant, iQ, reached GA in January. It\u2019s integrated in many places across our product, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/couchbase-capella-iq-general-availability\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">available in IDEs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and recently took on more superpowers with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/capella-iq-insights\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capella iQ Insights<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/products\/analytics\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capella Columnar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Capella Columnar addresses the challenge of parsing, transforming and persisting JSON data into an analysis-ready columnar format. It supports real-time, multi-source ingestion of data not only from Couchbase, but also using common systems like Kafka to draw data from other third party JSON or SQL databases.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/free-tier-capella-dev-available\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capella Free Tier<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; At Couchbase, we are dedicated to removing blockers and creating cutting edge solutions for developers to create the next generation of applications across IoT to AI, and beyond. Now, with the addition of Capella Free Tier and social sign-on, we are making it faster and easier for developers to get hands on.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/products\/vector-search\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vector and Hybrid Search<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Couchbase was the first vendor to support vector search across our product line; on-prem, cloud and mobile. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/hybrid-search\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more about vector and hybrid search<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/products\/ai-services\/\">Capella AI Services<\/a> &#8211; Rounding out an action-packed year, Capella AI Services helps customers build AI-powered applications in a more simplified, streamlined, performant and secure way. We know that many organizations have started exploring and building test applications with AI, but most of those projects are not brought to production due to concerns with privacy, hallucinations, cost, and ongoing management. Our Capella AI Services are designed to overcome many of these challenges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Capella AI Services - Overview\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_T7-_YMBq2U?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DevEx &#8211; tools and integrations<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were many developer experience improvements and devtool innovations, whether rolled into the product or existing in the wider ecosystem to make developers more productive. Here are just some of the highlights:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Artificial Intelligence<\/strong>: With the acceleration of features in the core product, we also worked hard on building a number of integrations with other AI services. These include <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.couchbase.com\/tutorial-bedrock-serverless-pdf-chat\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Bedrock<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.couchbase.com\/tutorial-gemini-langchain-pdf-chat\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gemini<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/developers\/integrations\/langchain\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Langchain<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.vectorize.io\/integrations\/vector-databases\/couchbase-capella#couchbase-capella-parameters\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vectorize<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and more.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/registry.terraform.io\/providers\/couchbasecloud\/couchbase-capella\/latest\/docs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The Capella Terraform Provide<\/strong>r<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, currently at v1.4.0, is a powerful way of programmatically managing Capella API keys, users, organizations, projects, clusters, buckets, and other resources.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/couchbase-shell-cbsh-v1-0-vector-search\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Couchbase Shell<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 1.0 has been reached after 4 years of development. It\u2019s a powerful command-line tool built on top of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nushell.sh\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nushell<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> designed to make your interactions with Couchbase easier and more efficient.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Couchbase Lite for Ionic Capacitor<\/strong> (PREVIEW) is a plugin implementation using Typescript. It has feature parity with Couchbase Lite implementations for other platforms, with a few exceptions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cbl-reactnative.dev\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>React Native Plugin for Couchbase Lite<\/strong> (PREVIEW)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a couchbase community supported version of Native Module implementation of Couchbase Lite for React Native using Typescript. It has feature parity with Couchbase Lite implementations for other platforms, with a few exceptions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/capelladatastudio.com\/\">Capella Data Studio<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> matured, reached version 1.0, and is getting better all the time. Read about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/capella-datastudio-top-10-features-for-developers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 Cool Features Every Developer Should Know<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/couchbase-solace-real-time-data-integration\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Couchbase and Solace<\/strong> have partnered<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to create a seamless integration between Solace\u2019s event-driven messaging platform and Couchbase\u2019s high-performance NoSQL database, Capella DBaaS or Couchbase Server.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/couchbaselabs\/flink-connector-couchbase\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Apache Flink connector<\/strong> Beta<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a set of Source and Sink classes that can be used to read and write JSON documents to a Couchbase cluster.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Our<\/strong> <strong>IDE plugins<\/strong> continue to be enhanced with new features that allow developers to interact with Couchbase in your dev environment. Check out our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plugins.jetbrains.com\/plugin\/22131-couchbase\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JetBrains<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/developers\/integrations\/vs-code-plugin\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VSCode<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> plugins.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are more tools to explore on our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/developers\/integrations\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">integrations page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, be sure to visit!<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Customer stories<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Helping customers build applications that bring value to their business is at the core of everything we do. They constantly surprise and delight us with how they use Couchbase and the associated wins. Here is a selection of customer profiles from this year across different industries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/customers\/trendyol\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trendyol<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a global leader e-commerce platform that connects more than 250,000 sellers and brands with over 40 million customers on dedicated local language apps in multiple countries. Couchbase enables easy and cost-effective scaling without sacrificing high performance, it provides data storage and processing that spans clusters, regions, and cloud providers. Additionally Couchbase\u2019s flexible JSON schema and familiar SQL++ enable developers to use their existing skill sets<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/customers\/rakuten\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rakuten<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> offers services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content, and communications to 1.8 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has more than 30,000 employees, and operations in 30 countries and regions. For Rakuten, Couchbase ensures nearly 100% availability, low read latency, and data backups. By consolidating databases, Rakuten enhanced cost-efficiency and reduced TCO by 20%. Ultimately, Couchbase\u2019s multipurpose database, SQL for JSON, and rich features increased capabilities while reducing complexity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/customers\/quickplay\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quickplay Media<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the industry leader in over-the-top (OTT) cloud transformations for sports, media, and entertainment across 10+ markets. Quickplay required a database that could handle sudden spikes in traffic amidst massive amounts of unexpected user demand and is now able to scale while maintaining peak performance with Couchbase\u2019s network-centric architecture. Couchbase enables a fast, personalized experience for millions of subscribers with 100% uptime. The database easily scales to thousands of queries per minute (typically 30-75K) and maintains an under 5-second app start time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/customers\/swarm-engineering\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SWARM Engineering<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> provides a SaaS platform that lets organizations in the agri-food industry optimize their supply chains using next-gen cognitive computing. For SWARM, Couchbase enables quick SQL implementation, unlimited scalability, fast prototype development, and allows data scientists to access all data from one place. Customers achieve 400% faster planning time with an average ROI of 3-10x. An AI-powered digital assistant interviews users to capture tribal knowledge, constraints, and key interdependencies, and helps users identify and benchmark critical challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/customers\/wibmo\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wibmo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an industry leader in payment security and digital payments in emerging markets and India&#8217;s largest authentication service provider. Wibmo offers fraud and risk management solutions, mobile payments, prepaid solutions, and a host of merchant-acquiring services. Couchbase\u2019s highly reliable in-memory database significantly boosted performance. It scales quickly and easily for both business growth and spikes in demand. Ultimately, Couchbase\u2019s flexible NoSQL database makes it easier to address diverse and evolving requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out these other <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/category\/customers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">customer stories on the Couchbase blog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Events<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Events for developers were back with a bang this year, and we were there to make things happen! We deliver events for customers, developers, investors, and other audiences. We support third party events where we show up to provide value to the other communities. In 2024 we doubled down on virtual community events and DevRel streams for wider reach and to provide opportunities for a broader audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meetups<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/perlange_thanks-to-everyone-who-showed-up-at-the-nordic-activity-7231930209535488000-Fyp-?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16667 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.26.19\u202fAM-263x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.26.19\u202fAM-263x300.png 263w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.26.19\u202fAM-768x877.png 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.26.19\u202fAM-300x343.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.26.19\u202fAM.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/a>This year, we participated in over 70 developer meetups. We partnered with a number of ranging from partners like AWS User Groups and Google Developer Groups, to Python communities and other language groups, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/pro\/couchbase\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hosting a number of our own<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in multiple cities including London, Bangalore, Tel Aviv, Zurich, and Vancouver. The highlight reel would stretch far for these events, but here are a just a couple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In August we were delighted to be present at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/couchbase-partners-cillers-nordic-ai-hackathon\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nordic Software AI Hackathon organized by Cillers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Couchbase was part of the core tech stack for the event, and we were very impressed with the applications that the teams built.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In November we conducted a hack day at our Bengaluru office in collaboration with Cloudflare. Instead of a typical meetup, the event attendees were required to build projects with Couchbase vector search (using Free Tier) and Cloudflare for 3 hours and present their demos at the end of the hackday. We had a total of 60 people turn up for the event. In this hybrid format, initially we had presentations on Cloudflare workers and Couchbase Vector Search. Later everyone moved to the office space to spend the next 2.5 hours building projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-6-1024x771.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-6-1024x771.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-6-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-6-768x578.png 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-6-1536x1156.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-6-1320x993.png 1320w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-6.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-7-1024x771.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-7-1024x771.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-7-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-7-768x578.png 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-7-1536x1156.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-7-1320x993.png 1320w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-7.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16670\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-8-1024x771.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-8-1024x771.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-8-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-8-768x578.png 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-8-1536x1156.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-8-1320x993.png 1320w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/image-8.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developer conferences<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As an organization, we focus on events large and small. We want to reach our customers, other developers building with Couchbase, and of course to raise awareness among new audiences. One of the best ways to do the latter is of course through larger conferences and tradeshows. We participated all across the globe this year, here are a few highlights.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WeAreDevelopers World Congress<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin is one of the largest developer conferences in Europe, boasting a top-notch lineup of speakers who are at the forefront of technology and innovation. In a true team effort, the DevRel and Community teams were there to work with Field Marketing and Sales to work at the Couchbase booth, and Gregor Bauer gave a well received talk \u201cGraphQL: Does it Replace SQL, REST or Something Else?\u201d. The popcorn proved to be very popular!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16671\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2178-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2178-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2178-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2178-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2178-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2178-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2178-1320x990.jpeg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2216-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2216-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2216-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2216-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2216-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2216-300x400.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2216-1320x1760.jpeg 1320w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_2216-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GIDS<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great International Developer Summit (GIDS) 2025 is Asia&#8217;s premier polyglot software conference and expo. In 2024 it reached over 6,000 attendees and Couchbase was there to meet developers. Our DevRel in the region, Shivay Lamba, gave a talk on vector search.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/73984d6e-60d7-4477-91d6-a46e785c6b18-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/73984d6e-60d7-4477-91d6-a46e785c6b18-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/73984d6e-60d7-4477-91d6-a46e785c6b18-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/73984d6e-60d7-4477-91d6-a46e785c6b18-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/73984d6e-60d7-4477-91d6-a46e785c6b18-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/73984d6e-60d7-4477-91d6-a46e785c6b18-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/73984d6e-60d7-4477-91d6-a46e785c6b18-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_5868-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_5868-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_5868-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_5868-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_5868-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_5868-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/IMG_5868-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virtual events<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once again our Marketing team has been busy all year putting out <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/resources\/?content=webcasts\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">webcasts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on a number of different topics. Our Sales org runs in-person and virtual Couchbase Capella workshops for our customers globally, and we expanded the reach this year with Capella Test Drives, our FREE hands-on course for developers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We put out various community virtual events and DevRel streams showcasing technologies and will continue to do so in 2025. Be sure to keep an eye on our YouTube channel, where you can find them organized into <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CouchbaseInc\/playlists\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">handy playlists<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Our streams go live on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/couchbase\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/couchbase\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">X<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as well, so be sure to follow us to get notified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ldoguin\/status\/1838568075949429102\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.33.09\u202fAM-1024x515.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.33.09\u202fAM-1024x515.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.33.09\u202fAM-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.33.09\u202fAM-768x386.png 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.33.09\u202fAM.png 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All things certification<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How does your certification count look? Is your LinkedIn missing a few badges? Looking for ways to show off your coding skills? Want credit for learning more about Couchbase? In 2024, all our online courses were updated to include Couchbase Capella Free Tier as well as the Vector Search and generative AI advancements within Couchbase databases. So far the Top Companies to earn Couchbase certifications in 2024 are: IBM, TCS, Accenture, Varmeego, and ESDS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking for Mobile Application content? Check out our new and improved <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.couchbase.com\/store\/4158004-cb140a-couchbase-associate-android-developer-with-capella-course\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CB140a: Android Mobile Developer Certification<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And just in time for the holidays, we\u2019ll be publishing our first ever CB130p: Couchbase Associate Python Developer Course and Certification Exam on December 20, 2024! With Python maintaining popularity, we didn\u2019t want Python experts to feel left out. We\u2019ve also upgraded <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.couchbase.com\/store\/4070660-cb131-associate-architect-certification-with-capella-course\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CB131: Associate Architect Certification<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to include Python code examples! Find out more and get in touch via the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/academy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Couchbase Academy webpage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Community highlights<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ambassadors<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/sigals_i-am-very-excited-to-share-that-i-have-joined-activity-7237556749099008001-1eeT\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16676 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.35.58\u202fAM-655x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.35.58\u202fAM-655x1024.png 655w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.35.58\u202fAM-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.35.58\u202fAM-768x1201.png 768w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.35.58\u202fAM-300x469.png 300w, https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-17-at-11.35.58\u202fAM.png 982w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/a>Our ambassador program is growing steadily both in terms of the number of members and in the impact that they have. We are very lucky to have a great group of Couchbase experts and enthusiasts. The program has grown to 27 active Ambassadors in 14 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are just few highlights from ambassador activity this year:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are holding exclusive sessions for Ambassadors on a monthly basis, focusing on technical and soft skills development<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/developers\/community\/ambassadors\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new ambassadors webpage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was launched, with information on the program and profiles of ambassadors who opt-in<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simon Owesu, on behalf of his employer PVH, took to the stage at the annual Couchbase Sales Kick-Off in Nashville in January<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ambassadors have participated at conferences and other events with us, including Sigal Shaharabani at co-hosting and speaking at a meetup and Curt Gratz talking to attendees at RubyConf about Couchbase<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sigal wrote a post on our blog, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/ai-powered-recommendation-engine-llm-rag\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Concept to Code: LLM + RAG with Couchbase<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ambassadors join the conversion and provide community support on our forums and Discord. Big shoutout to Brant Burnett for his commitment!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To apply or to refer someone, head on over to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/developers\/community\/ambassadors\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ambassadors page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Build<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our community is building some cool things, here are just some projects:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cbjs.dev\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cbjs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a drop in replacement for the nodejs SDK, that brings full Typescript support, autocompletion in your IDE as well as improved DX for unit tests. A full example is available on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cbjs-dev\/trpc-cbjs-couchbase-starter-kit\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GitHub &#8211; cbjs-dev\/trpc-cbjs-couchbase-starter-kit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We kept working with Doctolib on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/couchbase-ruby-orm-simplifies-development\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruby ODM<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and now have a full example available on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/hummusonrails\/realworld-couchbase-ruby-orm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GitHub &#8211; hummusonrails\/realworld-couchbase-ruby-orm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/couchbaselabs\/couchbase-efcore-provider\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EF Core Couchbase<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> allows Entity Framework Core to be used with Couchbase. This is currently in preview and if you are a .NET developer, we would love to hear from you. This has been kickstarted with our Ambassador Brant Burnett<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our DevRel team has been creating new starter kits to make it easier for anyone to start with Couchbase: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/couchbase-starter-kit\/\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Couchbase Starter Kits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you want to build with Couchbase? The best way to get started is to sign up for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.couchbase.com\/sign-up\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capella Free Tier<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and then head over to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/developers\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Couchbase Developer portal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wrapping up<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you for choosing to come on this journey with this. We can\u2019t say for sure what the future will bring, however <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vmblog.com\/archive\/2024\/12\/11\/couchbase-2025-predictions-navigating-ai-regulation-developer-evolution-and-infrastructure-changes.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">check out these well informed predictions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from Laurent Doguin, our Head of DevRel at Couchbase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Couchbase is a thriving developer community. Join us to have your questions answered, tell us your stories of building with Couchbase, nurture your speaking and leadership skills, or maybe even to make some friends!<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/aN7SFfJNWX\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discord server<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is for conversations with the community<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Couchbase <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/forums\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forums<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is for technical community support<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/couchbase\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dev.to Couchbase page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a place to read articles and get regular news updates<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To satisfy your social needs, follow Couchbase on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/couchbase\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">X<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/couchbase\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/couchbase\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See you in 2025!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year end is once again upon us, the perfect time to celebrate what we\u2019ve accomplished together as a community of developers. 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