Category: Couchbase Mobile

I use Parse. They’re shutting down. What should I do?

I use Parse. They’re shutting down. What should I do?

Yesterday Parse, one of the leading mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) offerings, announced that they would be closing their doors. This leaves the 600,000 developers that use their service with one question:  What should I do?  Option 1: Install...

February 9, 2016
Migrating from Parse to Couchbase Mobile

Migrating from Parse to Couchbase Mobile

Couchbase Mobile is the NoSQL database solution for mobile. It has an embedded NoSQL database (Couchbase Lite), built-in synchronization (Sync Gateway), and is all backed by a highly scalable and performant NoSQL database server (Couchbase Server).   With the recent...

RWDevCon 2016:  Couchbase Mobile Lab – Taking Your Mobile Apps Offline

RWDevCon 2016: Couchbase Mobile Lab – Taking Your Mobile Apps Offline

Join me at RWDevCon iOS Tutorial Conference in Alexandria, Virginia on March 11, 2016. The conference features Beginner, Advanced, and Inspiration-tracked training sessions focused on iOS development, and you will have the opportunity to meet and connect with distinguished authors...

Couchbase Mobile 1.2:  Enabling ForestDB for iOS and Android

Couchbase Mobile 1.2: Enabling ForestDB for iOS and Android

Couchbase Mobile 1.2 The new release of Couchbase Mobile 1.2, now available for download, delivers significant improvements around performance on the local client side storage engine for mobile devices. More specifically, the latest integration of ForestDB as the new storage...

Announcing Couchbase Mobile 1.2

Announcing Couchbase Mobile 1.2

I’m happy to share that we’ve released Couchbase Mobile 1.2, available now for download. In this release, we’ve focused on building new features that address the needs for easier administration, better security and even greater performance at scale. Highlights include:...

Coffee on Couchbase:  How to Securely Set Channel Parameters in Sync Gateway

Coffee on Couchbase: How to Securely Set Channel Parameters in Sync Gateway

From the previous Coffee on Couchbase Sync Gateway series, we explored how to authenticate users and also how to use Channels in Sync Gateway.  Sync Gateway provides the data orchestration layer for Couchbase Mobile and previously we saw how data...

Talking Beacons, IoT, P2P and Couchbase Mobile

Talking Beacons, IoT, P2P and Couchbase Mobile

Talking Beacons, IoT, P2P and Couchbase Mobile Yesterday I went to Fosdem to talk about Couchbase, IoT, beacons, P2P and the cool things you can do along those lines. Beacons A beacon is an object that can emit a signal...

Why is Couchbase Mobile a Great Solution for Modern App Development?

Why is Couchbase Mobile a Great Solution for Modern App Development?

There is a lot of chatter circulating the Internet when it comes to mobile application development and data management. Should you use a service, or a software for your mobile apps. Pretty much every decent app today requires fast changing...

How to Use Channels in Sync Gateway

How to Use Channels in Sync Gateway

Continuing from the Sync Gateway technical series, we will look specifically at how to configure the Sync Function through the use of Channels to execute data orchestration.  In the video below, we are joined by Chris Anderson who will go...

How to Validate Documents Types in Sync Gateway

How to Validate Documents Types in Sync Gateway

In the previous blog of the Sync Gateway series, we explored how to Authenticate and Authorize users in an application through some of the Sync Gateway features.  Building from the series, we will now explore how to validate Document Types...

How to Authorize Users in Sync Gateway

How to Authorize Users in Sync Gateway

To kick off the Couchbase Mobile Sync Gateway series, we will begin with understanding on how to authenticate and authorize users in Sync Gateway which is the intermediary component between mobile apps and Couchbase Server. Through Sync Gateway, there are...

Create an AngularJS Web Application that Sync’s with Couchbase using PouchDB

Create an AngularJS Web Application that Sync’s with Couchbase using PouchDB

Not too long ago I created a tutorial demonstrating how to sync between a web application and Couchbase Server using nothing more than client facing technologies like AngularJS, HTML, and CSS.  This was all made possible with the JavaScript library...