Tutorial: Build a Points of Interest App with Vue.js, Node.js, Express, and Couchbase Server

Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll build a full stack application using Vue.js, Node.js, Express, and Couchbase Server. In addition to those frameworks, we’ll use the Google Maps and Here Places REST APIs. Tl;dr clone the repo here. Contents What We’ll ... more

Processing GraphQL Queries with Java, Spring Boot, and NoSQL

Over the span of the past few months I’ve been learning about GraphQL and how to use it as an alternative to RESTful API development. The focus thus far had been around GraphQL and Golang as well as GraphQL and Node.js. I might have squeeze out all I ... more

Couchbase Server 5.5 Released

Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 Couchbase Server 5.5 production release is now available! We are very excited to share more information about this substantial extension of the Couchbase Data Platform . This release introduces several new Enterprise Grade ... more

JWT Authentication with GraphQL, Node.js, and Couchbase NoSQL

A few months ago when I had first started learning about GraphQL, I had written a previous tutorial for using it with Couchbase and Node.js. The tutorial focused on the basics which included creating GraphQL objects and querying those objects from the ... more

The Couchbase Data Platform in Action: Eventing/Functions

This post will dive into the use of the Couchbase Eventing Service in the Couchbase Silicon Valley 2017 technical keynote demonstration application. If you aren’t already familiar with the demo or Couchbase Eventing Service, take a look at the resources ... more

The Couchbase Data Platform in Action: Step-by-Step Setup

The application built for the Couchbase Connect Silicon Valley conference last fall incorporates dynamic N1QL queries, offline mobile, IoT sensors, ad hoc queries with analytics, cross-data center replication, failover, fuzzy text matching, and a slew ... more

Data Visualization with Couchbase and Knowi

Data visualization and reporting can help decision makers to identify patterns and concepts in analytics. Couchbase Analytics (currently in developer preview) provides a seamless NoETL experience (video) to analyze data with powerful queries. Knowi is ... more

Using GraphQL with Golang and a NoSQL Database

A few weeks ago I had mentioned that I was learning about the increasingly popular GraphQL and how it can be a replacement to the common RESTful API. In my previous example, we saw how to create a GraphQL application using Node.js and a Couchbase NoSQL ... more

The Couchbase Data Platform in Action: Couchbase Connect 2017 SV Demo Technical Overview

Last Fall we showed a 30 minute live demo of a full stack application written using a broad range of the Couchbase Data Platform capabilities. This was at the Couchbase Connect Silicon Valley 2017 conference. In this introductory post, I highlighted ... more

Creating a GraphQL Application with Node.js and a NoSQL Database

I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz around GraphQL, internally within Couchbase and externally. Since it sounds like a hot topic, I figured I’d spend some time learning about it to see how it could be valuable when creating web applications. Coming from ... more

Couchbase Server 5.5 Beta – now available!

Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 Beta This release is an extension of the Couchbase Data Platform but also introduces several new Enterprise Grade features – agility , performance , and manageability – all based on critical feedback from our customers. ... more

The Couchbase Data Platform in Action: The Couchbase Connect 2017 Silicon Valley Technical Demo

A Full Stack Couchbase Data Platform Application This past year, at the annual Couchbase Connect conference in Silicon Valley, we were proud to present a technical demonstration showing much of the breadth of the Couchbase Data Platform capabilities. ... more

Using the cURL Function with the Couchbase Eventing Service

The Couchbase Eventing service is new as of Couchbase 5.5 and I’d previously written a tutorial about detecting sensitive information and sending notifications. In my previous tutorial I demonstrated to how make requests to a remote service using the ... more

Define Your Own Durability Requirements in Couchbase with the SDKs

As a Developer Advocate at Couchbase, I go to many events and interact with a great deal of developers. When talking about Couchbase, I get a lot of questions around the durability of data that is being created. For example, Couchbase is a memory-first, ... more

Developing a Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Application with Node.js and NoSQL

I’ve been following cryptocurrency related subjects such as Bitcoin for a few months now and I’m very fascinated with everything that has been going on. As a web application developer, one topic that I’ve been particularly interested in learning more ... more

How to Condemn Your Microservices Architecture to Fail Before You Even Start

A lot has already been said about microservices over the last few years, but I commonly see new distributed systems being developed with the old mindset of monoliths. The side effect of building something new without the understanding of some key concepts ... more

Geospatial Search with ASP.NET Core, Aurelia, and Google Maps

Geospatial search is now fully supported in Couchbase Server 5.5. Check out the Couchbase Server 5.5 announcement, and download the developer build for free right now. In this post, I’m going to demonstrate the geospatial capabilities of Couchbase Full ... more

Using Couchbase Analytics with Node.js and JavaScript

The Couchbase Analytics Service, sometimes referred to as CBAS, is a great thing for Couchbase and your NoSQL data needs because it allows you to create and run potentially complex queries against massive amounts of data efficiently using a familiar ... more

Using Couchbase Analytics for Complex and Efficient Queries in a Java Application

Not too long ago I had written about using Couchbase’s new Analytics service, sometimes referred to as CBAS, within a Node.js application. In this example we had set up an Analytics dataset based on a sample Bucket and issued a query from our code. While ... more

Detect Sensitive Information In Your NoSQL Documents Automatically With Couchbase Functions

Storing sensitive information in a database without encryption is not a good thing, but have you ever done in on accident due to bugs in your application code or a misconfiguration in your database? What if there was a way to receive notifications anytime ... more

Introducing Couchbase Eventing Service

It gives us immense pleasure in announcing the launch of Couchbase Eventing Service as part of the Couchbase Data Platform 5.5 Developer Build. This new offering brings compute closer to data and lets customers process changes (create/ update/ delete/ ... more

Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 – Developer Build

Announcing Couchbase Server 5.5 Developer Build It is my pleasure to share this early preview of Couchbase Server 5.5 features – there are some very exciting improvements coming and this Developer Build (DB) highlights several of them. There are many ... more

Simplified Couchbase Server Cluster Creation via Docker

It’s pretty straight-forward to run an instance of Couchbase Server in a Docker container. It takes a bit more work to set up and fully configure a cluster. In this post, I’m going to walk through a shell script I wrote to automate the process. Background ... more

Machine Learning with Couchbase and Nexosis

Machine Learning is a tool that is helping developers and data scientists to accomplish all sorts of tasks: Classification – organize and tag data Regression – find relationships between data points Forecasting – use current data to predict the future ... more

Develop with Agility, Develop at any Scale with Couchbase on Cisco UCS

Author’s note: This excerpt from the Couchbase on Cisco UCS® solution brief is published on behalf of Cisco. Full solution brief for Couchbase on Cisco UCS® is available later in this blog. As the world migrates to a digital economy, businesses are adopting ... more

Continuously Deploying a Golang Application Using Travis CI

So you’ve been developing an application using the Go programming language with a team of developers for your organization. Best practice would say that you need to create proper tests and develop a continuous integration and deployment strategy. If ... more

Use OpenWhisk for FaaS with Node.js and Couchbase NoSQL

If you’ve been keeping up with my content, you’ll remember that I had written an article titled, Use AWS Lambda and API Gateway with Node.js and Couchbase NoSQL. In this article we had explored using Amazon’s Serverless services to create Lambda functions ... more

Getting Started with Couchbase Mobile using Docker Containers

Container technologies such as Docker have vastly simplified the software development, test and deployment process by allowing you to package applications along with their complete runtime environment that abstract away differences in infrastructure ... more

Full Text Search: The Key to Better Natural Language Queries for NoSQL in Node.js

Querying a database with SQL or a similar technology is great until you find yourself needing to query natural language. Do you degrade the performance of your queries with wildcards? How about searching across multiple columns or properties? What happens ... more

Use AWS Lambda and API Gateway with Node.js and Couchbase NoSQL

There has been a lot of buzz around functions as a service (FaaS), commonly referred to as serverless. A popular provider for these functions is Amazon with its AWS Lambda service. One could create a function in any of the supported Lambda technologies, ... more