Changelog Interviews – Episode #54
Erlang, CouchBase, Merging with Membase
with Chris Anderson
Featuring
Wynn sat down with Chris Anderson from CouchBase to talk about CouchDB, the merger with Membase, Erlang, and bringing NoSQL to PHPers.
Featuring
Notes & Links
- Chris Anderson is a Couchbase cofounder, Mobile Architect, CouchDB committer, new dad
- The CouchDB music video (served up from CouchDB no less)
- Chris sings the official CouchDB theme song to kick off Episode 0.1.8
- Apache CouchDb is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.
- Damien Katz is the creator of CouchDB.
- CouchBase was formed from merging Membase and CouchOne
- Chris is one of the rare CFOs with a GitHub account
- CouchBase makes the case for NoSQL
- Membase Server currently uses Sqlite under the hood, but will be swapped out for Couch’s storage engine soon
- Mobile Couchbase runs on iOS and brings Couch to your mobile device
- CouchApps are JavaScript and HTML5 applications served directly from CouchDB.
- Zynga makers of Farmville use Membase
- The CouchApp toolkit is now maintained by Benoît Chesneau
- Aaron Miller led the charge to get Erlang on iOS, changing dynamic linking to static linking.
- SpiderMonkey was included iOS for CouchMobile and its JIT compiler made it preferable to V8 or Nitro for Couch tasks.
- GeoCouch adds geospatial features to CouchDB
- Chris outlines the distinctives for Couch’s incremental Map/Reduce
- Jason Smith in Thailand keeps the lights on for CouchBase hosting solutions
- Cloudant offers hosting for Couch in the cloud
- Wynn wants to see integration for CouchBase and Appcelerator Titanium
- Todd Anderson has a great tutorial on using jQuery mobile and CouchDB
- Damien Katz is Chris’ programming hero
- Chris says working with Jan Lehnardt is a blast
- Be sure and check out CouchDB - The Definitive Guide by Chris, Jan, and Noah