A popular question these days has been “What does NoSQL mean?”
Some say it means “Not only SQL” or something. But to me it means something different.
In my CouchDB talk at the…
Blogs are pretty much append-only. Most of the time you add new posts, sometimes you edit recent ones. There are new comments.
CouchDB’s file format is also append-only. This doesn’t make it…
Web Workers open up the web client to message-passing-style programming. Getting this into HTML5 is the first step toward taking Erlang’s robust parallelism to the web.
People keep asking me what…
Thanks to Steve Souders I had the opportunity to speak about CouchDB at Google. here are links to the video and slides.
HTTP traffic (really, many kinds of traffic, as this happens at the TCP level) is sometimes repeated by intermediaries with no knowledge of either the client or the server. This is why…
In my last post I pretty much let loose with the frustration of having more to do than one possibly can. I think it comes from overbooking myself and then getting hit with the house fire that…
Time fucking management, this is something I’ve been learning my whole life, and I concede it’s like trying to hold back the ocean.
First of all, TFM’s non-linear: 45 minutes at the Github drinkup…
Jan, Noah and I are getting close to the finish line on our book, CouchDB: The Definitive Guide. Friday is a real deadline. We are in a sprint to apply all the latest API changes and suchlike to…
CouchDB’s web API and offline replication capabilities make it ideally suited to power a sea-change in the relationships between users and service providers. I’ll talk about the benefits and…
