Month: April 2018

What OpenTracing Is and Why It’s Important

What OpenTracing Is and Why It’s Important

We have previously discussed why system observability is important in distributed systems and the challenges that it can help to overcome – if you missed it, you can see Matt Ingenthron’s introduction to the problem here. Next, we will discuss why...

Authentication With X.509 Certificates

Authentication With X.509 Certificates

Data security is an important aspect of every modern data platform. With micro-service based architectures becoming more of a common pattern across every high-scale app, existing password based authentication mechanisms for user authentication is hard to manage at scale, let...

April 4, 2018
Understanding Index Grouping And Aggregation in Couchbase N1QL Query

Understanding Index Grouping And Aggregation in Couchbase N1QL Query

Couchbase N1QL is a modern query processing engine designed to provide aggregate SQL for JSON by index on distributed data with a flexible data model. Modern databases are deployed on massive clusters. Using JSON provides a flexible data mode. N1QL...

April 3, 2018
Define Your Own Durability Requirements in Couchbase with the SDKs

Define Your Own Durability Requirements in Couchbase with the SDKs

As a Developer Advocate at Couchbase, I go to many events and interact with a great deal of developers. When talking about Couchbase, I get a lot of questions around the durability of data that is being created. For example,...

Auto-FailOver Features in Couchbase Server 5.5

Auto-FailOver Features in Couchbase Server 5.5

Couchbase further improves high availability for mission-critical deployments and reduces operator intervention. Couchbase enhances the detection of common disk failures and automatically fails over the node with bad disks saving operators time and energy. It also handles multiple server failures...