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CouchConf Developer Awards – Finalists Announced!
Wow! We had some really good submissions for the Couch Developer Awards. After reviewing all the submissions we have now narrowed it down to our finalists and wanted to congratulate them. The categories and their finalists are… Best application built...
J. Chris Anderson, Co-Founder and Mobile Architect, Couchbase
January 26, 2016
JSON Anywhere Revolutionizes Mobile Developer Productivity
The mobile technology Couchbase announces today marks the beginning of a transition for mobile application developers: away from the web-centric LAMP stack and toward an integrated mobile stack. With JSON Anywhere, developers are free to concentrate on creating value for...
J. Chris Anderson, Co-Founder and Mobile Architect, Couchbase
December 16, 2015
Dropbox Drops Sync and Datastore APIs, Move Your App to Open Source Sync
Dropbox recently announced that they are deprecating their Sync and Datastore APIs to focus instead on their Core API. While we can certainly understand the imperative to focus, that doesn’t change the position many of the developers that rely on these APIs...
J. Chris Anderson, Co-Founder and Mobile Architect, Couchbase
December 16, 2015
Mobile at Web 2.0
Today I spoke at Web 2.0, about the differences between Mobile and traditional Web 2.0 architectures. The biggest difference I identified, is that mobile devices frequently have unreliable connections. Even when the connection is available, it often has high latencies....
J. Chris Anderson, Co-Founder and Mobile Architect, Couchbase
December 16, 2015
Mobile Couchbase for iOS Beta
Today marks a big day for Mobile Couchbase – our first release! This beta release for iOS is designed to initiate our release process, and to give developers a chance to get started using Mobile Couchbase, so we can incorporate...
J. Chris Anderson, Co-Founder and Mobile Architect, Couchbase
December 16, 2015
Get Started with Couchbase for Mobile
I just sent an email to our open source mobile community sharing some exciting developments we’ve made in the last months. I also want to share it with the blog, because I’m sure many of our database users also have...
J. Chris Anderson, Co-Founder and Mobile Architect, Couchbase
December 16, 2014
CouchTalk Calling
tldr; The storage part of CouchTalk is easy, just jpeg and wav resources keyed by id. What’s interesting is the application model that assumes sequential keys, allowing the front end to index into the data without issuing any queries. To...
J. Chris Anderson, Co-Founder and Mobile Architect, Couchbase
December 16, 2014
Couch Developer Awards –Tell us what you’re up to!
Hey everyone! We are so excited about CouchConf and as part of the conference we want to highlight those that are using the technology in cool ways. To nominate your project just fill out the this quick form by July...
J. Chris Anderson, Co-Founder and Mobile Architect, Couchbase
December 16, 2014
Performance Oriented Architecture
“How should I access my data?” is often asked by developers as they contemplate a storage solution. To answer that question one first needs to understand the application under consideration. Who are the most important users, and which use cases...
J. Chris Anderson, Co-Founder and Mobile Architect, Couchbase
December 16, 2014
Welcome Jens Alfke!
We are pleased to announce a new key member of the Mobile Couchbase team. Jens Alfke is a top notch dog in Cocoa development. He wrote the wiki page on Signed Documents back in the day, and before that he...
J. Chris Anderson, Co-Founder and Mobile Architect, Couchbase
December 16, 2014
What is MobileSync and Why Should You Use It?
Mobile apps are hard enough to build. Adding even one library to your toolkit can add time to your building process. So what is MobileSync and why should you put time into it? The short answer: sync provides access to...
J. Chris Anderson, Co-Founder and Mobile Architect, Couchbase
December 16, 2014
100x Less Code!
Couchbase Mobile can make you 100 times more productive. Similarly to the way Ruby on Rails revolutionized the way we think about web services by offering a concise way to model REST-based web applications and APIs servers, the sync function...
J. Chris Anderson, Co-Founder and Mobile Architect, Couchbase
December 16, 2014