Tag: Couchbase Server
Speculative Execution Processor Vulnerabilities – Performance Impact Analysis
Last week, we published a blog with recommendation on securing Couchbase data platform in response to industry-wide security vulnerabilities. We continued to analyze the potential performance impact caused by the patched OS binaries and this blog post captures the detailed evaluation. As...
Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities – Meltdown & Spectre
On Jan 3, 2018, Google’s Project Zero team along with several other university researchers identified several security issues with speculative execution, an optimization technique used in microprocessors to improve performance. Couchbase is aware of the recently disclosed class of processor/OS...
ASP.NET with Couchbase: Getting Started
ASP.NET is the development platform that most Microsoft developers use. At the Couchbase Connect Silicon Valley 2017 conference, I spoke to some .NET developers in a workshop. I asked them what type of content they’d like to see me create...
Matthew Groves
November 27, 2017
Tooling Improvements in Couchbase Server 5.0 (Update)
Tooling improvements have come to Couchbase Server 5.0. Note: this is an updated repost of Tooling Improvements in Couchbase 5.0 Beta. In this blog post, I’m going to show you some of the tooling improvements in: Query plan visualization –...
Matthew Groves
November 8, 2017
Profiling and Monitoring in Couchbase Server 5.0 Preview (Update)
Profiling and monitoring for N1QL are a big part of the Couchbase Server 5.0 release (now available for download). Note: this is an updated repost of Profiling and Monitoring in Couchbase Server 5.0 Preview (Update). Query Workbench Once again, I’ll...
Matthew Groves
November 7, 2017
Couchbase Console (video tour) – Update
Couchbase Console has a refreshed UI in Couchbase Server 5.0. Couchbase Server 5.0 is now available for download. But back in January, we were releasing developer builds to get early feedback. Note: this blog post is an updated repost of...
Matthew Groves
November 6, 2017
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, Software Architect, Couchbase
October 20, 2017
Blazing Fast Index Performance with Plasma
In the earlier post, we got an opportunity to introduce Plasma as the new performant storage engine that powers Global Secondary Indexes in Couchbase 5.0(beta out!). We saw some of the features of Plasma and how it is designed with...
Venkat Subramanian, Product Manager
September 22, 2017
Distributed session management with ASP.NET Core and Couchbase
Distributed session is a way for you to store your session state outside of your ASP.NET Core application. Using Couchbase to store session state can help you when you need to scale your web site, especially if you don’t want...
Matthew Groves
September 20, 2017
Azure Functions and Lazy Initialization with Couchbase Server
Azure Functions are still new to me, and I’m learning as I’m going. I blogged about my foray into Azure Functions with Couchbase over a month ago. Right after I posted that, I got some helpful feedback about the way...
Matthew Groves
September 15, 2017
Powershell with the Couchbase REST API
PowerShell is a scripting environment / command line that comes with Windows and is also available for Linux and within Azure. Maybe you’ve used Postman or Fiddler to make HTTP requests. Those are great, but not necessarily the right tools...
Matthew Groves
September 14, 2017
Dependency Injection with ASP.NET Core and Couchbase
Dependency Injection is a design pattern that makes coding easier. It saves you the hassle of instantiating objects with complex dependencies, and it makes it easier for you to write tests. With the Couchbase.Extensions.DependencyInjection library (GitHub), you can use Couchbase...
Matthew Groves
September 8, 2017