ApacheCon EU 2016

A thorough introduction to CouchDB 2.0, the five-years-in-the-making final delivery of the larger CouchDB vision.



Apache CouchDB 2,0 finally puts the C back in C.O.U.C.D.B: Cluster of unreliable commodity hardware. With a production-proofed implementation of the Amazon Dynamo paper, CouchDB has now high-availability, multi-machine clustering as well scaling options built-in, making it ready for Big Data solutions that benefit from CouchDBÛªs unique multi-master replication.

This talks looks alt the five-year development of Apache CouchDB 2.0 and looks at the major challenges of shipping a major version.



In a classic five act setup, this talk will explore the lessons learned the hard way from shipping CouchDB 2.0:



1. Community struggle: the inventor abandons the project. A toxic person is ejected from the community.



2. Trademark disputes: the ASF level playing field for corporations is defended by fierce battles.



3. Feature Deprecation: how to convince a part of your community that it is better to let go than to hold on to a specific feature set.



4. The trade-offs of shipping: release less now, release more later.



5. Inclusivity and diversity: losing people over culture burn-out .

Offline-first web application development leads to faster apps and a better user experience, but is it realistic? It's hard enough to think about "mobile-first". And what if your code needs to run on a smart phone, in a browser, and as an installed desktop application? Do you really have time to implement "offline-first" for all these platforms and their variants? Thanks to a combination of open source packages including PouchDB, Electron, and React, it's now possible to write one offline-first web application that runs everywhere. In this session, Rod Cope will demonstrate how even complex transactions are possible in this new world of high performance, user-friendly, run anywhere, network-optional web apps.