Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• icouch v0.5.1 – A CouchDB client for Elixir using ibrowse for HTTP transfer.

• node-red-contrib-cloudantplus-selector v0.1.2 – A Node-RED node to access Cloudant and couchdb databases, supports views, query and bulk operations.
  

• ol-couchdb-source v1.0.0 – OpenLayers source for fetching and displaying GeoJSON documents from a CouchDB server.
  

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• [POST] Does NoSQL live up to the hype?, Alexandra Ash
• [POST] Apache CouchDB 1.x-2.1.2 CVE-2018-11769 Remote Code Execution, Apache

… and in the PouchDB Universe

• [TUTORIAL] PouchDB tutorial, ZetCode

CouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

• CouchDB can’t set up HTTPS

no public answer yet:

• PouchDB _revs_diff call getting cancelled

• Is it the right way to load balance couchdb with nginx?

• Integrating Nosql & Relational databases to be used for Data Warehouse

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

• August 21-23, Carlsbad (CA), US: JSConf US
• September 20-21, Hamburg, Germany, NEXT18 Conference
• September 24-27, Montréal, Canada: ApacheCon North America

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• CSI-IT – CouchDB Consultant with Supply chain Experience, Framingham, MA
• Integration Developer – LA Innovation Center, West Hollywood, CA

• Data Platform Engineer – Investor Data, New York, NY

• Senior Full-stack Engineer, Boston, MA

• Senior Front End Web Developer, No office location

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