Welcome back! This edition looks a little different, and wasn’t on time if you were expecting it a few weeks ago. That’s because the CouchDB Digest will now follow an itinerant schedule — it’ll be published when there’s a decently large collection of CouchDB articles and tools that ensure each Digest is well worth a read. 

In this edition there are a bunch of handy CouchDB connectors and plugins, including Apache Camel and a replication monitor, plus a couple of resources for deploying with Docker. 

We also have two community updates:

• Apache CouchDB 3.5.2 has been released and binaries for your operating system are ready for your next upgrade.

• If you’ve ever wanted to contribute to PouchDB, join our triage session in the #pouchdb channel every other week and help enhance the project:
  • July 20, 2026 from 8–9am UTC
  • August 3, 2026 from 3-4pm UTC
  • August 17, 2026 from 8-9pm UTC

Blog Articles

• The GitHub issues team discuss how their performance considerations were inspired by local-first development, including service workers [GitHub Blog]

• Durgesh shares his view on  how offline-first and local-first differ, and dives deeper in when to consider local-first architecture [Durgesh Rajubhai Pawar on Smashing] 

• Sanskriti Harmukh details how to deploy CouchDB on Ubuntu 24.04 via Docker Compose [Sanskriti Harmukh & Vultr on Dev]

• Gokhan Guney shares how they unified memory fabric for their various agents, including Obsidian, LiveSync, CouchDB and more [Goku Blog]

• Mervyn Anthony introduces the Offline-First Reactive Data Layer Architecture — as opposed to Model-View-Presenter (MVP) and CLEAN Architecture — to bring reactivity to constrained mobile storage [InfoQ Blog]

Misc

• CVE: If you’re using Budibase versions prior to 3.38.1 you’re encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible [CVE-2026-45719 on dbugs]

Videos

• The CouchDB project’s Jan Lehnardt presented how the Neighbourhoodie team helped a client and AAA game publisher achieve 10x CouchDB performance by using a methodical approach to bottleneck hunting [Plain Schwarz on YouTube]
  • Read the article this talk is based on

Tools 

• Apache Camel CouchDB component version 3.4.4 has received updates [Apache Camel on MVN Repository]

• This hardened Docker image for CouchDB 3.4.x on Linux and Debian 13 has received recent updates [CouchDB images on Docker Hub]

• Connect your CouchDB to Express apps using these recently updated Node.js modules [Express]

• Get your own serverless CouchDB on a free plan for basic functionality [Layerbase]

• DBCode can connect to CouchDB in VSCode to help with management, Mango queries, monitoring and few more bits and pieces [DBCode Documentation]

• Claudio Kuenzler shares a tool to help you monitor your CouchDB replication processes [Napsty on GitHub]

• Medic, the team behind the Community Health Toolkit — featured here before — have shared their latest release, the CHT Core Framework 5.2.0, for responsive, offline-first health tools based on CouchDB [Medic on GitHub]

You’re all caught up with the world of CouchDB! If we missed something — like a recently published article or tool, as well as a source we should regularly keep an eye on — let us know in the comments!