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Jennifer Garcia is a Senior Web Manager at Couchbase Inc. As the website manager, Jennifer has overall responsibility for the website properties including design, implementation, content, and performance.

memcached AMI security

memcached AMI security

One other feature we were able to easily put in place leverages security capabilities in OpenSolaris.  In the Solaris least privilege model, a process can take privs away from itself.  Why would it do that? It’s well known that one...

December 16, 2014
memcached and the client: Database UDFs

memcached and the client: Database UDFs

NorthScale’s own Patrick Galbraith has, for many years now, authored and maintained the MySQL, and now Drizzle, UDFs for memcached. Last week, Patrick took this one step further with the latest release, version 1.1, which now includes support for “check...

December 16, 2014
Compaction magic in Couchbase Server 2.0

Compaction magic in Couchbase Server 2.0

With Couchbase’s append-only storage design, it’s impossible to corrupt data and index files as updates go only to the end of the file. There are no in-place file updates and the files are never in an inconsistent state. But writing...

December 16, 2014
Caching Doctrine Entities with Couchbase

Caching Doctrine Entities with Couchbase

[This blog was syndicated from http://nitschinger.at/] This blog post gives you an introduction on how you can speed up your Doctrine ORM layer by using Couchbase Server 2.0 as a simple, fast and elastic cache in front of your entities....

December 16, 2014
building all the time

building all the time

Recently, when Patrick Galbraith and I put together the next moxi release, we spent a bit of time getting the build clean on a number of platforms and with a number of compilers.  Continually building and testing on multiple platforms...

December 16, 2014
Attending NoSQL Oakland 2009

Attending NoSQL Oakland 2009

A new meme appeared recently at the NoSQL East meetup, suggesting that NoSQL should really stand for “Not Only SQL”.  This is a great improvement over plain-old “No SQL” moniker.  However, while a double-negative making a positive, I'm hoping we...

December 16, 2014
Memcached, go-derper, Black Hat and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Bulletin

Memcached, go-derper, Black Hat and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Bulletin

If you are a user of memcached and have deployed instances on Amazon EC2, you may have received a message from Amazon over the weekend (we received one on 8/7/2010) indicating you may have a “Possible Insecure Memcached Configuration.” Here’s the...

December 16, 2014
More memcached

More memcached

Our intrepid NorthScalers have been doing some interesting work recently in memcached land… Last week, Dustin Sallings announced his memcached server implementation in Erlang, called EMemcached.  Besides being a cool project, there's a surprising amount of interest in the mixture...

December 16, 2014
MrRoboto: The memcached AMI story

MrRoboto: The memcached AMI story

Not so long ago, we went to lunch at a Sushi joint on Castro street in Mountain View across from NorthScale’s modest HQ.  On the way over we were talking about Japanese robatayaki and Dave told a story about an...

December 16, 2014
Multiple Bucket Connections in Couchbase and Ruby

Multiple Bucket Connections in Couchbase and Ruby

c = Couchbase.new(“http://localhost:8091/pools/default/buckets/my-bucket”) I believe it’s safe to say we are mostly all familiar with the above Ruby code.  It establishes a connection from the Ruby SDK to a bucket of our choosing inside our Couchbase cluster.  There are, of...

December 16, 2014
My Notes on the NoSQL Smashup

My Notes on the NoSQL Smashup

As with many developers, I love to tinker with new technologies.  Much like Dustin, I’d long admired CouchDB for it’s novel approach, the fact that it matches the way we think about data and its simplicity.  It was hard to...

December 16, 2014
N1QL – It Makes Cents!

N1QL – It Makes Cents!

*Ba Dum Tschhh*  …See what I did there? Makes cents? Get it? Haha. So… N1QL (pronounced Nickel)… Couchbase’s new next-generation query language; what is it?  Well, it’s a rather genius designed, human readable / writable, extensible language designed for ad-hoc...

December 16, 2014