Daily Archives: August 20, 2015

CouchDB Weekly News, August 20, 2015

Major Discussions

Joan Touzet was interviewed on CouchDB and the Apache way

Joan was interviewed for her upcoming keynote talk at Texas Linux Fest: Joan Touzet on CouchDB and the Apache way

Project Fauxton Feedback (see thread)

In order to write a presentation under the working title “The State of Fauxton 2015” Michelle Phung asked the user community to present their thoughts, concerns and future improvement ideas for the project. Some extensive feedback reveal interesting perspectives on and use cases for Fauxton and imply relevant objections concerning design and layout. For instance, who has used Fauxton as a debugging tool, would like it to rather feature more information by reducing empty space and default font size. Also, preferred options of viewing and editing documents, e.g. with tables, and how the latest version of Fauxton currently handles those, are discussed on several levels. For details of the feedback, see the summarised responses of Jason and Eli.

A parallel discussion about potential improvements of the Fauxton visual guide’s UI arrived at the idea to integrate the visual guide into Fauxton and thereby making it easier to find and adapting it to the layout.

Starting CouchDB 2.0 under diverse network infrastructures (see thread)

A user directed a question about node naming in CouchDB 2.0 to the user-mailing list. The problem occurred, that a database created on a computer under a certain hostname will appear empty under a different hostname due to “a mismatch in the node name and fabric”. As the “node name is set by the vm.args file [and] it defaults to ‘-name couchdb’, which will cause CouchDB to try to discover the system hostname”, it is suggested to “set that value directly as ‘-name couchdb@’ or ‘-name couchdb@’ […] to set it to something that can be routed from other nodes…”.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

    • couchdown 1.2.0 – A leveldown backend for CouchDB
    • couchdb-backup-restore 1.0.3 – Creates backups of CouchDB databases (.tar.gz files containing one .json file per database) and restores from those backups.
    • couchdb-objects 1.0.7 – Aids in the construction of JSON objects as used by CouchDB.
    • couchdb-render 1.0.1 – Given the code of a CouchDB show/list function (and some other stuff), this module runs it and returns the result.
    • couchdb-eval 1.0.6 – Compiles a piece of code to a function object, providing a CouchDB-like JavaScript context.
    • unexpected-couchdb 0.1.0 – Unexpected plugin for unit testing against a mock CouchDB server.

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Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

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Use Cases, Questions and Answers

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We’d be happy to welcome you on board!

Events

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

Time to relax!

  • “It’s not only about whether you are a core team member or not: people who are early founders or early members of a project, organization, or core team, are typically privileged over later adopters even as the organization grows and changes. It doesn’t matter how many contributions you have made as a later adopter, the founders and early adopters will stay the stars of the project…” – The Hidden Power Dynamics of Open Source
  • “We aren’t in a place where we can to take a year off, but one or two or more of these times away will preserve and cultivate a healthy creative vision for our lives, which is our greatest goal and mark of success. This means we will have to actively choose to have times where we make less income, live more frugally, and are smarter with what we have.” – The Journey to choosing time-off
  • “The middle ground […] between the anti-discrimination-movement and the privacy-movement […] is a census that is done in a sensitive way. But this can also be a very political process. [In this] map showing countries where ethnicity or race was counted and enumerated since 1991 [it is interesting to see that] for example in France it is forbidden by law to collect any data based on racial-ethnic origin. In contrast […] it was very usual to put you photo on your CV. […] There’s lots of research that proof many discriminatory hiring-practices based on that. Social scientists have advised ways to get around that status […]. So it’s not like the data is not being collected, but it is being collected in a ad-hoc or inaccurate way.” – Representing marginalised communities in data: CCCamp
  • “The best mentorship model is a network ‘Having a diverse set of mentors has been crucial to my success.’ — Lara Hogan, Senior Engineering Manager. […] I’ve always thought of mentorship as a very intense 1:1 relationship and I’m sure that’s still a platonic ideal, but it’s not a scalable one. Many people I interviewed had established an in-house network of mentors, where inexperienced managers can learn from those with very different backgrounds.” – What I didn’t know about great engineering culture
  • “The way media dotes over its tortured male artists while undermining the personal struggles of women who suffer the same is nuanced, but a look into the archive suggests the phenomenon is well documented across race, genre, and generation. When Janis Joplin died on October 4, 1970 the New York Times called her a ‘misfit’ whose ‘behavior was explosive’ and remembers her as ‘drinking from a bottle at her concerts’ and ‘screaming obscenities at a policeman in the audience’. Two weeks prior when Jimi Hendrix died – also at the age of 27– the same paper’s headline referred to him as a ‘Top of Music World Flamboyant Performer Noted for Sensuous Style’’ – Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain and the Gendering of Martyrdom
  • “Companies keep on deceiving themselves into thinking that the developers are the only important and worthy hires. While they might be a key part of product development, a product is useless if no one knows that it exists or how to use it, or if the development team feels exhausted and overworked, eventually burning out and neglecting key parts of the business.” – How the Glorification of Software Developers Compromises Tech Companies

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