Welcome to the September 2025 CouchDB Digest! This one is short and sweet: we kick off with why “sync” is becoming the word of the moment, see how VLAN-controlled container access enhances CouchDB’s security and get introduced to a CouchDB rules engine.

Blog Articles

• Adam Wiggins shares why “sync” is becoming so popular ahead of SyncConf [Adam Wiggins on their own blog]

• Better understand user goals and frustration when it comes to offline-first media management in Anu Joy’s review of a make-shift solution with Proton [Anu Joy on Android Police]

• Rich Edmonds uses their CouchDB-hosted Obsidian to show how they make local apps even more secure by using dedicated VLAN to control container access [Rich Edmonds on XDA]

• Mark Headd has embarked on building a rules engine using CouchDB [Mark Headd on Civic Innovations and GitHub]
  • Check out the short thread in Slack for technical details

Videos

• If last month’s article about using CouchDB and the blockchain for hygiene traceability caught your attention, join this real-time setup tutorial that integrates CouchDB with Hyper-Ledger Fabric [Hardcore Backbencher on YouTube]

Misc

• In this Reddit post, u/socken23 troubleshoots — and solves — a Cloudflare and CouchDB issue in their self-hosted Obsidian sync [u/socken23 on r/CloudFlare]

Tools

• Benoit Chesneau shares Couchbeam, a CouchDB client library for Erlang applications [@benoitc on X and GitHub]

• Anarion’s virtual CouchDBs, running on Ubuntu24 and provisioned via Microsoft Azure, got some updates in the last month [Anarion Technologies on Microsoft Marketplace]

Thanks for keeping up with CouchDB; see you here again soon!