Category: Best Practices and Tutorials
Offline-first: a mindset for developing faster, more reliable mobile apps
What does offline-first mean? The term “offline-first” describes a mobile app that is built to perform most, or all, of its core functionality without access to the Internet. The concept is simple enough, but all too often this is not...
Securing Communication with TLS Certificates: A Definitive Guide for Couchbase Server (Part 1 of 3)
Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates are vital components in securing network communications with a Couchbase Server deployment. TLS ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of data transmitted between clients and servers. This comprehensive guide aims to demystify the configuration and...
A Guide to Backend Databases
The backend is the part of an application responsible for storing and processing data. It’s the opposite of the front end, the part of the application that users interact with. The backend typically comprises servers, application programming interfaces (APIs), and...
Videos: Putting the SQL back into NoSQL
Are you interested in using the familiar SQL language while also benefiting from the flexibility of JSON data? We’ve got a series of three videos that can help you achieve the best of both worlds. Putting the SQL back into...
Build a Survey App with Netlify and Couchbase
The Couchbase DevRel team has been working with the Bad Website Club on freeCodeCamp materials. freeCodeCamp is a non-profit organization that consists of an interactive learning web platform, an online community forum, chat rooms, online publications and local organizations that...
What is Data Modernization? Benefits and Challenges
As the needs of both customers and organizations evolve, organizations search for solutions to meet and surpass these needs. Because the data modernization process offers improved methods for storing and analyzing data, organizations have increasingly turned to modern solutions in...
Don’t REST – Use a Mobile Database for Apps: Couchbase Webcast Recap
I was recently honored to co-present on a webcast with my colleague and good friend, Aaron LaBeau, Sr. Developer Advocate at Couchbase. Aaron has nearly 30 years of development experience and specializes in building mobile apps, and so seemed the...
Couchbase Customers are Using AI and ML to Fight Financial Fraud
The overwhelming narrative recently has been everything surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). What do these technologies mean for society as a whole, and how will they be incorporated into daily life? Large language models (LLMs) are a...
Unlocking Next-Level Search: The Power of Vector Databases
These days, you can’t go anywhere without hearing about the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI). The concept may feel overwhelming if you haven’t incorporated AI into your platform, but it’s much easier to understand than it seems. One of...
What is a Transactional Database?
Transactional databases store data in rows rather than columns to read and write data quickly. A transactional database maintains data integrity by relying on ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) properties. ACID ensures that a database is restored to its original...
Data Replication: Advantages & Disadvantages
Data replication (storing redundant copies of data in multiple locations) is crucial when it comes to maintaining high availability, improving the performance of your systems, and ensuring business operations run smoothly in the event of disaster. However, it does come...
5 Reasons to use Molo17 GlueSync for Data Integration
Organizations around the world, no matter if they are large enterprises, medium or small companies, or government entities, all use databases to support strategic applications and store critical data. Usage of NoSQL databases, such as Couchbase, is increasing dramatically, whether...