Monthly Archives: June 2015

CouchDB Weekly News, June 25, 2015

Major Discussions

The new 2.0 build tools just landed in master (see thread)

A CouchDB 2.0 build script, that started in February 11th, was merged June 24th. A major rework was started last week making a new ./configure script that comes with extensive unit tests for the CouchDB project and accepts most of the customisation options of a GNU./configure that behaves according to the GNU Coding Standards. The result is, that CouchDB master and 2.0 will work similar to 1.x when concerning system installation behaviour. Now testing for different systems and configurations can begin. Feedback is highly appreciated.

DB size question (see thread)

A user was asking how to handle significant increase of DB volume and how to configure checkpoint_after, doc_buffer_size? The answer referred to a discussion about DB file size and a setting that helped reduce it: checkpoint_after = 5242880000 doc_buffer_size = 524288000

IP Clearance for couchperuser and docker-couchdb started (see thread)

IP Clearance procedure on general@incubator.a.o. was started and concluded this week.

[DISCUSSION] NMO to ASF (ongoing, SEE thread)

Process to move nmo – a tool to manage CouchDB clusters was written as part of COUCHDB-2598 – to ASF will get started.

SSL with self-signed certificates (see thread)

A user asked how to make CouchDB work with HTTPS and a self-signed certificate. The issues are that, depending on the client, the connection is accepted or refused. The discussion preceded on Stackoverflow. A current solution that was fond to use stunnel in front of CouchDB.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

StackOverflow:

no public answer yet (StackOverflow):

Use Cases, Questions and Answers (PouchDB)

no public answer yet (StackOverflow):

For more new questions and answers about CouchDB, see these search results.

Get involved!

If you want to get into working on CouchDB:

  • We have an infinite number of open contributor positions on CouchDB. Submit a pull request and join the project!
  • Do you want to help us with the work on the new CouchDB website? Get in touch on our new website mailing list and join the website team! – www@couchdb.apache.org
  • The CouchDB advocate marketing programme is just getting started. Join us in CouchDB’s Advocate Hub!
  • CouchDB has a new wiki. Help us move content from the old to the new one!
  • Can you help with Web Design, Development or UX for our Admin Console? No Erlang skills required! – Get in touch with us.
  • Do you want to help moving the CouchDB docs translation forward? We’d love to have you in our L10n team! See our current status and languages we’d like to provide CouchDB docs in on this page. If you’d like to help, don’t hesitate to contact the L10n mailing list on l10n@couchdb.apache.org or ping Andy Wenk (awenkhh on IRC).

We’d be happy to welcome you on board!

Events

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

Time to relax!

  • “It was while Kleiman was an undergraduate studying computer science that she came across a picture of  the first programmable computer, ENIAC. She noticed that while the men in the picture were captioned, the women were not. After making inquiries, she was told, dismissively, that the women were models. Suspicious … she dug and dug until she discovered … these six women were founders who created the first software app and the first sorting machine, and their story might never have been told if she hadn’t noticed something odd about that picture.” – The world’s first app creators
  • “A system with per-page payouts is a system that rewards cliffhangers and mysteries across all genres. It rewards anything that keeps people hooked, even if that means putting less of an emphasis on nuance and complexity.” – What If Authors Were Paid Every Time Someone Turned a Page? Amazon is about to find out.
  • “Most of the time when developing applications, we assume that people have permanent access to a broadband connection, no matter where they are in the world. … Let’s face it, … we are struggling with connectivity issues all the time, be it bad mobile coverage or expensive roaming. So why are most web sites and apps not prepared for that?” – Why offline-first matters, and what developers should know about it
  • “The inclusion of a playable female protagonist Evie Frye in Ubisoft’s Victorian-era proffering Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate is extremely noteworthy, considering the controversy surrounding the release of Assassin’s Creed: Unity back in 2014, which, despite promises made by the publisher, did not feature a lady on the forefront because the developers couldn’t take the time out of their day to design one. (It’s also worth noting that technical director James Therien consistently referred to the hypothetical character as a ‘feature’, because women are obviously only accessories.)”– E3 2015 Showed Strides For Female Representation In Gamer Culture
  • “Those of us who have written, thought, or spoken about this — even in shadowed whispers — need to keep speaking out about call-out culture and toxic activism, both against the ideological purists who tell us we’re providing ammunition to the ‘enemy’ and the professional scapegoaters who seek to farm clicks and book advances off of this issue.” – So You’ve Been Publicly Scapegoated: Why We Must Speak Out On Call-Out Culture
  • “After four years of drawing regularly, I still sucked. I still wasn’t as good as the ones who had been drawing 10 times as often for 10 times as long. I could see that I was moving forward, but I could also see that I wasn’t at the end. On the other hand, I wasn’t at the beginning anymore.” – The damned annoying truth about sucking at things

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CouchDB Weekly News, June 18, 2015

Major Discussions

2.0 progress (see thread)

A list of missing features and suggestions. Feedback is very welcome.

CouchDB questions (or why use a document-based database) (see thread)

A new user to CouchDB wants to make a desktop app that syncs with a Django app and wants to know how a NoSQL, schema-less and document-based database like CouchDB, as opposed to a relational one like PostgreSQL, is to be used to sync the data and include an undo functionality to reverse transactions.

Since transactions are not reversible, it was suggested to use PouchDB with NW.js., implement an undo-feature and recover previous document versions. Also it is being stated that replication and scalability is not as simple in PostgreSQL, whereas with CouchDB, master-master simplicity is a core feature. The main advantage of a NoSQL-database in this case would be, that it’s schema-less and therefore more sustainable.

HTTPS Reverse Proxy Replication (see thread)

A user has been trying to get CouchDB continuous replication to work with a remote database behind an https reverse proxy. It was suggested to check X-Forwarded-Proto.

CouchDB for Android (see thread)

One way to use CouchDB in an Android environment is to start building an Android app that works in sync with CouchDB. Instead of using CouchDB 1.2-beta that was build for Android, it was suggested to use Couchbase Lite, which is also compatible with CouchDB.

CouchDB utc_id behavior (see thread)

Another user recognised uncommon behaviour of new document IDs when being synched between two CouchDB servers that had their clocks synchronised via ntp. While using timestamps to order the documents, they were not in a chronological order, even though OS clocks were in sync…

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

Releases in the PouchDB Universe

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

  • CouchDB override a base JSON document. Question: A standard strategy (or best-practice) for creating a JSON document that a) is based on another document and b) contains a small number of JSON properties that represent overrides to the original document? Answer: It depends on the use case whether to use a CouchDB _list, an approach based on CouchDB _view, or an CouchDB _update handler, and create a view to return each updated document if any overrides exist and the normal document if overrides don’t exist for it.
  • CouchDB – Why is my reduce is always coming as false? Answer: You got the sum of values per title, while you wanted the sum of values in general, by changing the grouping drop-down list to none. Check CouchDB’s wiki for more details on grouping.
  • Indexing names in JSON using elasticsearch in couchdb – trying to implement full-text query for JSON documents. How to index only the title field? Answer: With the elasticsearch-river-couchdb plugin, one can configure the river with a script to remove all fields but the ones to specify. Find an example in the official documentation of the plugin.

no public answer yet (Stack Overflow):

For more new questions and answers about CouchDB, see these search results.

PouchDB Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

Get involved!

If you want to get into working on CouchDB:

  • We have an infinite number of open contributor positions on CouchDB. Submit a pull request and join the project!
  • Do you want to help us with the work on the new CouchDB website? Get in touch on our new website mailing list and join the website team! – www@couchdb.apache.org
  • The CouchDB advocate marketing programme is just getting started. Join us in CouchDB’s Advocate Hub!
  • CouchDB has a new wiki. Help us move content from the old to the new one!
  • Can you help with Web Design, Development or UX for our Admin Console? No Erlang skills required! – Get in touch with us.
  • Do you want to help moving the CouchDB docs translation forward? We’d love to have you in our L10n team! See our current status and languages we’d like to provide CouchDB docs in on this page. If you’d like to help, don’t hesitate to contact the L10n mailing list on l10n@couchdb.apache.org or ping Andy Wenk (awenkhh on IRC).

We’d be happy to welcome you on board!

Events

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

Time to relax!

  • “We could choose to spend extraordinary amounts of money and countless man-hours laboring over a system which provides the reliability we want. We could construct a data center. We could deploy big, expensive machines. We could install redundant fiber and switches. We could drudge over infallible code. Or we could stop, think for a moment, and realize maybe [saying] “sorry” is a more effective alternative.” – Distributed Systems Are a UX Problem
  • “It is obvious that his comments were sexist, but few people could recognise the names or faces of the women he has so thoughtlessly brushed aside. Even in his inadequate apology, he neglected to mention any women scientists who have impressed him during his career…” – The Unseen Women Scientists Behind Hunt’s Nobel Price
  • “Do you feel in the zone working solo plugging away at what you love? Great, make space for that to occur and guard that time like your dreams depend on it — because they do.” – There Are No Hacks To A Meaningful Life
  • “Open Source has a serious problem with sustainability and people working on OS projects for months or years and then giving up on them because they simply don’t want to put any more time in them because it’s so frustrating. So I wanted to have this discussion about what you can do to minimise this frustration.” – The Changelog  #159: Sustaining Open Source Software with Mike Perham
  • “Digging through the company’s membership data, LinkedIn found that software engineering teams in industries outside of technology tended to have many more women.” – This study suggests Silicon Valley really is biased against women
  • “Don’t hire a junior developer as a marketing effort or PR stunt. This reason only considers your company’s best interests rather than those of the candidate. If you’re doing this, you probably haven’t read anything I mention above or below this paragraph.” – The Catch-22 of Being “Too Junior”
  • “It isn’t enough to just state that you’re being color-blind or gender-blind. You need to explicitly say that you’re looking to build a diverse team. The former can imply that you’re being lazy and maintaining your structural biases, but hope to be surprised and delighted when you find a minority or female candidate who can overcome those biases, whereas the latter is a position of active engagement.” – On Recruiting, Inclusiveness, and Crafting Better Job Descriptions

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