Tag: Couchbase Sync Gateway

Technical Details of the 1.4 Release of Couchbase Mobile (video)

Technical Details of the 1.4 Release of Couchbase Mobile (video)

Couchbase recently released the 1.4 version of the Couchbase Mobile stack.  1.4 includes the first release of Sync Gateway Accelerator into general availability. This short video describes some of the technical details of the new features.  Mostly it focuses on...

Offline-first apps with Couchbase Sync Gateway

Offline-first apps with Couchbase Sync Gateway

In this article, I’m going to propose an offline-first development using Couchbase as the communication tool between the backend and frontend.

Couchbase Mobile Changes Explorer – Part. 2

Couchbase Mobile Changes Explorer – Part. 2

Introduction The Couchbase Mobile Sync Gateway changes feed provides a way to monitor events in a mobile deployment. The feed makes it feasible to write sophisticated business logic. I wrote a tool to help examine and understand the feed. You...

Introduction to offline data storage and sync with PouchBD and Couchbase

Introduction to offline data storage and sync with PouchBD and Couchbase

Offline-first is an approach to software development that is different from the traditional approach – where lack of network connection is treated as an error, thereby affecting the overall user experience. With the traditional approach, you start with the most...

Couchbase Mobile Changes Explorer – Part. 1

Couchbase Mobile Changes Explorer – Part. 1

The Couchbase Sync Gateway changes feed can be useful for driving various kinds of logic besides replications. To help understand the intricacies of the changes feed, I developed a simple tool. In this blog post I’ll talk about what the...

Getting Comfortable with Couchbase Mobile: Sync Gateway via the Command Line

Getting Comfortable with Couchbase Mobile: Sync Gateway via the Command Line

Introduction This continues my my “Getting Comfortable with Couchbase Mobile” series (post #5). This time we’ll look at exploring Sync Gateway from the command line. This can be really helpful, both for understanding and for testing/debugging.  (Links to other posts...

Getting Comfortable with Couchbase Mobile: Installing Sync Gateway

Getting Comfortable with Couchbase Mobile: Installing Sync Gateway

Introduction In this fourth post about the Couchbase Mobile stack, we’ll go over installing Sync Gateway. Look for other posts in my “Getting Comfortable with Couchbase Mobile” series to learn everything you need to get the whole Couchbase Mobile stack...

Validating your Sync Gateway documents with synctos

Validating your Sync Gateway documents with synctos

When building any system with client and server components, it is critical to validate the data that the client tries to store on the server and to ensure that only those who are authorized can view or modify it. Otherwise...

Installing Sync Gateway on Alternate Linux Distributions

Installing Sync Gateway on Alternate Linux Distributions

Introduction Couchbase’s Sync Gateway supports several platforms, including Linux. Unfortunately, there are a huge number of Linux distributions. It simply isn’t feasible to create and test installations for all of them. As of this writing, Couchbase distributes two packages for...

Access Denied, or Access Lost?  Some Tips on Sync Gateway

Access Denied, or Access Lost? Some Tips on Sync Gateway

The plan for this blog post started out with wanting to clarify a particular detail about how Couchbase Mobile’s Sync Gateway component handles removing a client’s access to a document. I’m going to write a bit about Sync Gateway channels to provide a foundation....

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...

Couchbase Server 3.1.0 Enterprise Edition – now available!

Couchbase Server 3.1.0 Enterprise Edition – now available!

We’re happy to announce the release of Couchbase Server 3.1.0 Enterprise Edition. As many of you know, version 3.0 revamped the architecture to deliver new database capabilities and major enhancements in many other areas. Version 3.1.0 is the first minor release of...