CouchDB Relaxback

The last week was a big one for CouchDB. Here is a brief recap, (inspired by Mark Phillips’s great blog post on the Riak Recaps). I can’t get everything in, cause there’s way too much. Leave a comment (or email jchris@couch.io) if I left anything out, or if you have ideas for what to mention next week.

1.0 Released

We’ve been working toward CouchDB 1.0 for five years, so geting that out the door was rather major. There was even a New York Times article that calls CouchDB the first production ready NoSQL database (I heartily concur, we’ve been production worthy since 0.8.0) Now that we are 1.0 there’s no reason not to use CouchDB in your banking, medical, air-traffic control, or other mission-critical applications.

As part of the 1.0 release we asked the community to write retrospective blog posts on how they came to CouchDB. Thanks to Klaus for a collection of links:

We’re still hoping to find more of these, so if you’ve been involved in CouchDB for a while (or even a short time) and you write one, let me know.

Windows Support

Part of the 1.0 release is Windows support. Thanks to Aaron Miller for building a provisional installer kit. Some folks are having trouble with the installer, so we’re waiting on Mark Hammond to get home and build a proper one. Thanks Mark!

CouchCamp

Last year we had CouchHack which was the first time a few of the committers met each other. It was also when Damien, Jan, and Chris first decided to form a company behind CouchDB.

This year we are hosting CouchCamp which will be the biggest gathering of CouchDB supporters in the history of all time. Of all time. There will be scrumptious organic food (and maybe Damien will even make a McDonald’s run) and quality beer. All this and a cabin bed at Walker Creek Ranch in Marin County. Slots are filling up fast, and there are only a limited number of beds. Anyone who registers after we are out of beds will be welcome, but you’ll end up camping (for real) in the great outdoors. Registration for this two and a half day event is currently only $500, in celebration of CouchDB 1.0.

CouchRest

In other news, the CouchRest Ruby library for CouchDB has a new set of active maintainers. For help with patching CouchRest, talk to Marcos Tapajós, Sam Lown, and Will Leinweber. Thanks Rubyists!

GeoCouch

GeoCouch is taking the world by storm. There was a meetup in Augsburg. PDXAPI continues to kick ass, and has begun to spawn related applications like Food Cart Pages and mobile clients.. Thanks Volker Mische, Max Ogden, Don Park and others.

This just in: PDXAPI has won an award (and $1,000) from the Mayor of Portland!

Faster JavaScript Views

A few months ago, the Riak team (great hackers) released some code to make communication between Erlang and JavaScript way more efficient. After that Paul Davis integrated it with CouchDB, as a proof of concept. Since then, he’s started to refactor it for easier builds. We are looking forward to integrating this with CouchDB trunk in a near-future release.

Mr. Rogers on Sesame Street

Just kidding about the PBS reference (as a kid I was always fascinated by cameos). But Cloudant’s Mike, Alan, and Dave stopped by the Couchio offices and we talked about collaboration and strategy, and how to help get the CouchDB story to the millions of developers who haven’t heard a word of it yet.

One thing that came out of the meeting, we plan to host some CouchDB trainings. If you want one in your town, email hello@couch.io and we’ll get it together.

Monthly webinars

O’Reilly has been sponsoring monthly Webcasts in association with the CouchDB book. Here’s the list so far.

CouchApp Evently Guided Hack. Learn how to make CouchApps the JChris way.

Intro to Apache CouchDB

What’s new in CouchDB 1.0. A round up of the features and improvements that CouchDB’s seen in the last few months.

Flexible Scaling with CouchDB Replication (video not yet available.)

Next month (on the 25th) we’ll be doing one on how to make crash-only applications using the _changes feed. Signup link to follow.

New Committers

The Apache CouchDB project is very lucky to have two new committers joining us: Filipe Manana and Robert Newson. Filipe has been hard at work on updating the replicator to be more robust and performant. Robert is the force behind CouchDB-Lucene.