Major Discussions

[PROPOSAL] Improve testing infrastructure of CouchDB (see thread)

Read the full proposal that was submitted to improve the ways to test CouchDB. It was further discussed, whether it would be worth adopting to Elixir to help make ‘couch_testing’ more approachable, even though this would maybe “impose a steep learning curve on developers.”

Updating the docs (or the Wiki) for Apache as SSL and auth (see thread)

Working steps for installing on Amazon Linux, and for setting up Apache as a front end SSL proxy with authentication was added to the Apache CouchDB Wiki, on a new page.

pouchdb-find and CouchDB 2.0 (see thread)

A user addressed the mailing list with his plan to create a developer-friendly CouchDB service, a Software Development Kit (SDK), which uses PouchDB for local replication. He is interested in using pouchdb-find and asks about support in CouchDB 2.0.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• couch-configure 0.0.5 – A simple wrapper for Nano to configure CouchDB
• spicy-action 4.8.0 – HTTP(S) proxy & Socket.IO relay for CouchDB and others
• tuffet 1.0.3 – The only adorable CouchDB CLI tool coated with sugar
• couch-admin 1.2.0 – Node.js library to manage users on CouchDB.
• deebee 2.0.0 – CouchDB CLI, cmd line CLI tools to interface CouchDB!

PouchDB

• PouchDB 5.0.0 – Five years of PouchDB
• worker-pouch 1.0.0 – PouchDB over a web worker
• socket-pouch 1.0.0 – PouchDB over websockets
• pouchdb-server 1.0.0 – A standalone REST interface server for PouchDB.
• relational-pouch 1.4.0 – PouchDB, relational style
• express-pouchdb 1.0.0 – Express submodule with a CouchDB style REST interface to PouchDB.

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• [Blog Post] “Apache Big Data Conference Budapest Roundup”, IBM Developer Blog, Glynn Bird

CouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Use Case:

• Putting CouchDB behind Varnish
• AdvanceDB: An in-memory database based on the CouchDB REST API and containing the CouchDB Futon and Fauxton web sites
• Url Shortening with CouchDB

Stack Overflow:

• hood.ie with CouchDB method to refresh pages with DB change
• CouchDB/PouchDB schema design
• Testing to see if PouchDB and CouchDB are in sync
• Use Like% in CouchDB Doctrine Symfony 2
• Cloudant index: count number of unique users per time period

no public answer yet (Stack Overflow):

• CouchDB on a website for uploading image, [ajax]
• How Does CouchDB Relate Indexes to a Database View
• CouchDB compaction and deleted documents

PouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• PouchDB throwing “possible EventEmitter memory leak detected” warnings
• Angular ionic app: dependency error trying to angular-pouchdb
• Store IndexedDB to SQL server

no public answer yet (Stack Overflow): 

• PouchDB how to check if localDB is up-to-date with remoteDB

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

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

• October 12, Brisbane, AUS: PouchDB, NativeScript, Responsive design lib, +tbc
• October 27, Hamburg, Germany: CouchDB Meetup

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Ruby-Developer (m/w) Backend, Cologne, Germany
• DBA/Developer (NoSQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra, SQL Server), Sydney, AUS
• Big Data Consultant, London, UK
• Mobile Front-End Developer (m/f), Munich, Germany

Time to relax!

• “Let us encourage others to see their glass half full, and promote the unique strengths, vision and context they can bring to tech, code and start-ups.” – Glass Half — Let’s change the conversation
• “Intersectionality alone cannot bring invisible bodies into view.  Mere words won’t change the way that some people — the less-visible members of political constituencies — must continue to wait for leaders, decision-makers and others to see their struggles. In the context of addressing the racial disparities that still plague our nation, activists and stakeholders must raise awareness about the intersectional dimensions of racial injustice that must be addressed to enhance the lives of all youths of color.” – Why intersectionality can’t wait
• …“What are our obligations to people who did not expect themselves to be so intimately known without sharing directly? How do we mitigate against unintended outcomes? For instance, an activity tracker carelessly revealed users’ sexual activity data to search engines. A social network’s algorithm accidentally triggered painful memories for grieving families who’d recently experienced death of their child and other loved ones.” – Carina C. Zona: Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm | JSConf EU 2015
• “The association of silence with wealth is not a recent marketing strategy, of course, but the marriage of tranquility and privilege is, in fact, the very purpose of airline lounges.” – The Luxury of Silence
• “We need to recognize the privilege required to attend such bootcamps and we need to seek other, more sustainable ways to provide those who are less privileged with better education, training, mentorship, and exposure to code.” – Coding Is A Privilege
• “‘Women in Tech’ don’t need me to battle for them. “Women in Tech” have … the whole of Team Colorless Diversity to fight for them. … I will not, cannot, use that privilege to reinforce and support problematic power structures. Instead I will use that privilege to raise the voices of the brown and black people that Colorless Diversity seems to gloss over.” –  #FFFFFF Diversity
• “Your words help to frame your sense of empowerment and control. Furthermore, the words that you use create a feedback loop in your brain that impacts your future behaviors. For example, every time you tell yourself “I can’t”, you’re creating a feedback loop that is a reminder of your limitations. This terminology indicates that you’re forcing yourself to do something you don’t want to do.” – A Scientific Guide to Saying No: How to Avoid Temptation, Distraction
• “How we talk matters. A lot. It matters at work, at home, in life. The words we choose reflect and reinforce deep assumptions about what is normal and what is not, what is approved and what is not; what is valued and what is not.” – How we talk

… and also in the news

• “.@BikeHomicides uses CouchDB to store tweets. It’s been running for over a year. Couch is still 27MB resident and DB is only 9.5MB on disk.” (@thesterobus via Twitter)
• An employee handbook built for inclusion
• “In unrelated news to everything: I love CouchDB’s Project Fauxton. Such a neat interface!” (@_pretzelhands via Twitter)
• The Open Source Party