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In a previous life, Marco used to be CTO, radiation physicist, software architect, sysadmin, DBA, trainer and general handyman at Italy's largest radiation theraphy practice. Having switched career and country, he spent more than two decades in various support and development positions in Informix first and IBM later, before finally taking the plunge and joining Couchbase, to help them make gold out of N1QL. He holds several patents and has authored open source projects of his own.

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N1QL User Defined Functions

Introduction Couchbase Server 6.5 introduced User Defined Functions as a Developer Preview feature. N1QL is primarily a declarative language – where you ask what to get, and the language works out for you the actual method. While declarative languages have...

Marco Greco, Principal Software Engineer, Couchbase December 14, 2020

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Server N1QL / Query

New in Couchbase Server 7.0: N1QL per request memory quota

Introduction Unlike other services, the N1QL service so far hasn’t offered the ability to size its memory footprint. The principal reason for this disparity boils down to one simple fact: while the bulk of the memory consumption for services like...

Marco Greco, Principal Software Engineer, Couchbase December 7, 2020

Best Practices and Tutorials Couchbase Server N1QL / Query

Optimize N1QL performance using request profiling

Monitoring uncovered the resource hog. Now what? Couchbase Server 4.5 introduced a mechanism to keep an eye on executing requests, so that slow performers could be highlighted. This DZone article covers the subject of N1QL monitoring in great detail, but...

Marco Greco, Principal Software Engineer, Couchbase October 20, 2017