If you’re new-ish to CouchDB, there might be a thing or two that you feel like you’ve got a good handle on, and then all of the sudden you’re missing some document revisions. Using MVCC tokens as a revision control system? That’s gonna cause you some grief! 😬

Fortunately, this video from Joan Touzet on 10 common misconceptions about CouchDB will definitely help clarify some things for you, like whether view groups are for developer convenience, or whether to make every cell of your SQL table a new doc. No spoilers here, so you’ll have to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKQ9kXKoHS8

If you still have questions afterward, join us in the Apache CouchDB Slack channel. We’ll see you there!

For more about CouchDB visit couchdb.apache.org or follow us on Twitter at @couchdb. 

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• coucharchive 1.2.1 (Python) – Dump/restore a whole CouchDB server contents to/from a single tar.gz file.
• couchdb-expression 1.0.5 – Express Session Store for CouchDB
• couchify 0.4.1 – use next generation JS in your CouchDB apps.
• kivik 1.2.0 – Kivik provides a generic interface to CouchDB or CouchDB-like databases for Go and GopherJS.
• node-couch 2.3.0 – CouchDB library for Node.js

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• [PAPER] WiscKey: Separating Keys from Values in SSD-conscious Storage, Lanyue Lu, Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau (For more check out WiscKey, Key Value Store based on LevelDB)
• [POST] Building Offline-First App using MVVM, RxJava, Room and Priority Job Queue, James Shvarts
• [POST] Introduction to NoSql Databases, Cecilia Pereyra

… and in the PouchDB Universe

• [SLIDEDECK] CouchDB, PouchBD and Offline-Tolerant Apps, Lorna Mitchell

CouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• CouchDB get the changed document with each change notification
• Public rewrites on private database

no public answer yet:

• Can you estimate build time of CouchDB JavaScript views?
• How to create a CouchDB “selector” in Node.js?
• Check if login information is correct for remote database

PouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• PouchDB return 404 on design document even if this document exist

no public answer yet:

• Web App Architecture PouchDB + NodeJS

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 23-27, Munich, Germany: International JavaScript Conference
• November 10-13, Grants Pass (OR), US: Offline Camp Oregon
• November 11 – Visakhapatnam, India: Vizag Bluemix User Group, Deploying your first Node Application to IBM Bluemix

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Software Engineer, Backend, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Senior Web Back-end Developer, Minneapolis (MN), US/Remote
• Web Application Developer, Brandon (FL), US
• Senior Web Developer, Atlanta (GA), US
• Senior Web Full-Stack Developer, Minneapolis (MN), US/Remote
• Mgr, Software Engineering – Platform Services, Menomonee Falls (WI), US
• Senior PHP Developer, Berlin, Germany
• Sr Architect – Platform Services Architect (Mobile), Menomonee Falls (WI), US
• Senior Java Engineer, Atlanta (GA), US
• Data Warehouse Architect & Mentor, Monrovia, Liberia
• Team Lead – Engineering, Chicago (IL), US

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