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!

So much is happening around CouchDB these days, it’s about time we restarted a monthly roundup of CouchDB articles and videos from our favourite sources. If there’s anything you think should be included, comment it in for others and I’ll keep an eye on that source in future. Without further ado, welcome to the June 2025 CouchDB Digest!

Blog Articles

• Discover how Cloudant SDK’s each handle Auth, and how to switch between them [Cloudant Blog]

• Learn how to set up 2FA in CouchDB and gain some insights into how it works [Neighbourhoodie Blog]

• Though not from the last month, in keeping with the Auth theme, get an overview of CouchDB’s authentication systems [Couch Architects Blog]

• Read impressions of the Local-First Conference in Berlin [Neighbourhoodie Blog] 

• Get familiar with Parallel Preads in this spotlight on the feature that’s new in 3.5.0 [Neighbourhoodie Blog]

• If you use CouchDB with Kubernetes, take a look at this guide to resolving cluster issues [Stephen O. Roy on Medium]

• If you aren’t subscribed, take a peek at the Neighbourhoodie’s newsletter [Neighbourhoodie Blog]

And of course, in case you missed them, check out these additions to the CouchDB Blog: 

• Results from the 2024 Apache CouchDB User Survey are out — take a look

• Chirag Moradiya shared a new CouchDB case study that looks at how replication is indispensable for Hisab Technologie’s real-time, offline app

Videos

• The Neighbourhoodie team has launched a YouTube channel, take a look at their videos on PouchDB, Nouveau and QuickJS [Neighbourhoodie Youtube]

Misc

• Here’s a lesson and quizz on Offline-First architecture with CouchDB [Wayground]

Tools

• If you use Obsidian, implement your own live sync with CouchDB [vorotamoroz on GitHub]

That’s it for this month. Until next month, see you in the comments 👋