We’re officially more than halfway through the year! You might be preparing to emerge from a frosty winter, or crossing off the last of your todos before summer holidays. There’s even a chance this month’s digest is already greeting you from a train seat or beneath a beach umbrella. Enjoy July’s roundup, and if I missed anything, let me know in the comments.

Blog Articles 

• Alessio Marinelli shares their experience deploying a CouchDB Operator in OpenServerless with Taskfire [Alessio Marinelli on Medium]

• Accompany Royan as they build PouchDB-inspired offline sync [Royan Daliska on DEV]

• Vladimir captures how to build a local-first password manager with Bun, React, Tailwind CSS, PouchDB and CouchDB, including source code [Vladimir Lazarev on Medium]

• Can AI help you build faster with Vue.js and CouchDB? Ivan Rocha Cardoso shares their story [Ivan Rocha Cardoso on DEV]

• If you or someone you know is new to CouchDB, check out or pass on part 2 of Neighbourhoodies’ “What is CouchDB?” [Neighbourhoodie on DEV]

• If initially loading data in your local-first app is causing problems, see how partial data fetching on initial load is done with CouchDB and PouchDB [Neighbourhoodie Blog]

Videos 

• Get an introduction to CouchDB sharding, learn how to set up PouchDB and TypeScript and discover more real-time patterns with the `_changes` feed  [Neighbourhoodie YouTube]

Misc 

• Daniel Ferenczi and Melinda Tóth evaluate the dependency complexity of  CouchDB and other Erlang-based projects in their academic paper, “Towards Correct Dependency Orders in Erlang Upgrades” [originally published in Acta Cybernetica; full article accessible via Research Gate]

• Both CouchDB and PouchDB are now fixtures on the Local-First Landscape [by localfirst.fm]  

Tools

• If you’re working on an AI use case with CouchDB, check out this CouchDB Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server [CData]

• Walter M. Rafelsberger shared Eddo: an offline-first todo and time-tracking app based on a Minihosted CouchDB and integrated MCP server (see it shared on Bluesky) [walterra on GitHub, @walterra.dev on Bluesky]
  • It didn’t come out in July, but this app makes use of CouchDB Minihosting [Neighbourhoodie Blog] 

• Free your (human) memory from syntax conversions with an AI generated CouchDB to SQL query converter [AI2SQL]

That’s it for now, catch you next month!