Changelog Interviews

Erlang, CouchBase, merging with Membase

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Wynn sat down with Chris Anderson from CouchBase to talk about CouchDB, the merger with Membase, Erlang, and bringing NoSQL to PHPers.

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Featuring:

  • Chris Anderson – GitHub, X
  • Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

  • Chris Anderson is a Couchbase cofounder, Mobile Architect, CouchDB committer, new dad
  • The CouchDB music video (served up from CouchDB no less)
  • Chris sings the official CouchDB theme song to kick off Episode 0.1.8
  • Apache CouchDb is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
  • Damien Katz is the creator of CouchDB.
  • CouchBase was formed from merging Membase and CouchOne
  • Chris is one of the rare CFOs with a GitHub account
  • CouchBase makes the case for NoSQL
  • Membase Server currently uses Sqlite under the hood, but will be swapped out for Couch’s storage engine soon
  • Mobile Couchbase runs on iOS and brings Couch to your mobile device
  • CouchApps are JavaScript and HTML5 applications served directly from CouchDB.
  • Zynga makers of Farmville use Membase
  • The CouchApp toolkit is now maintained by Benoît Chesneau
  • Aaron Miller led the charge to get Erlang on iOS, changing dynamic linking to static linking.
  • SpiderMonkey was included iOS for CouchMobile and its JIT compiler made it preferable to V8 or Nitro for Couch tasks.
  • GeoCouch adds geospatial features to CouchDB
  • Chris outlines the distinctives for Couch’s incremental Map/Reduce
  • Jason Smith in Thailand keeps the lights on for CouchBase hosting solutions
  • Cloudant offers hosting for Couch in the cloud
  • Wynn wants to see integration for CouchBase and Appcelerator Titanium
  • Todd Anderson has a great tutorial on using jQuery mobile and CouchDB
  • Damien Katz is Chris’ programming hero
  • Chris says working with Jan Lehnardt is a blast
  • Be sure and check out CouchDB - The Definitive Guide by Chris, Jan, and Noah

    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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