Rags Srinivas's blog
More Couchbase and Java with Views, Hadoop and Mobility
I spoke at the London JUG and was probably over ambitious in trying to include our recent work on Views, Hadoop Connector and the Android Grocery Sync application in a single presentation besides demoing the "simple, fast and elastic" theme that Couchbase and the client libraries support.
Strata Conference
I attended the Strata Conference last week and although I did not catch the talks, the buzz was definitely in the air on the show floor. "Machine Learning," "I am a Data Scientist" and "we are showing off a Hadoop connector" seemed like the most common pick up lines. Our Helicopter giveaways was amongst the most popular. I Wish I had one of them, but, as a Couchbase employee I was not eligible.
Java User Group talks
I wanted to give a shout out for the Cleveland Java Users Group for hosting me and organizing a meetup despite very little notice. The healthy interaction in the group seems reflective of the sentiment of the larger Java community in general. I am not totally surprised by the findings that surfaced in James' blog.
Hello World with Couchbase and Ruby
For those of you who might have seen my other blog, my goal is to convey the fact that using Couchbase with any of the language client libraries is very straightforward. The client libraries handle the complexity of the connection and the inherent distributed nature of the cluster. Here's the Hello World code in Ruby.
Hello World with Couchbase and Java
My favorite technical book of all time has been the C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie affectionately referred to as K&R. They popularized a term that will ever be in a developer parlance - Hello World.
