Introduce Yourself

[Jasdeep Jaitla]

Team 8091 Members,

Please take a moment to introduce yourself to the rest of us by replying to this thread.

It would be great to hear about...

• the technologies you use or appreciate
• how you have used or will use Couchbase
• some of your other experience
• or something else cool to know! 
  

Jasdeep

[Jasdeep Jaitla]

I am a Technical Evangelist for Couchbase, and have a lot of interest primarily in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JRuby, Eventmachine. However, I also really like learning new technologies, and am learning Go, Node.js, and Clojure at the moment. I also work with and learn front end technologies like Backbone.js, CoffeeScript, SASS, Dart, and others related to CSS3/HTML5. I have an interest in disruptive startups and new technologies which brought me to NoSQL and Couchbase. I love scalability and performance topics as well. 

For about a decade I was a ASP.NET developer, Information Architect, Product Manager, Client Manager at various times, and before that for several years did Java, C, and Cold Fusion to begin my web development. 

I have had two recent projects, one that used Couchbase 1.8 alongside Neo4J for a social prop betting app that had real time chat, and a complex arrangement of graph for content discovery. This one didn't actually get launched into the public due to funding, but, it was really cool. 

The second app I did was a much lighter and smaller app called Radlibs, which was a play on Mad Libs but made social. This one is up at http://radlibs.demo.couchbase.com/, and uses RoR with Couchbase for everything that is there. It isn't officially launched, but feel free to play with it. It will be available soon as a github download/clone.

I live and work in San Francisco and the surrounding area, have 2 kids and love getting together with people to create code and project ideas.

Jasdeep Jaitla

[Matt Ingenthron]

Hi all,

I'm Matt Ingenthron-- probably know a number of you-- I've been one of the contributors to the memcached project for a number of years now, mostly on the client side.  I joined one of the two trunks of Couchbase as employee number three, so I've had an opportunity to touch nearly every part of the system.  These days I head up the team who are building client libraries and other integration bits.  

My passion is web app development/deployment and making developing with/on Couchbase easier.

Tech I appreciate?  I'm a polyglot-- I do like everything.  Here at Couchbase, I've written erlang, done more with C, learned a lot more about the details of javascript (the UI was one of my first projects), developed a hypertext-oriented REST interface (the port 8091 stuff was mine in the early days), I think I love it all.

I get into performance wonkyness, and if I'd had time I'd love to do more with mobile.  

How have I used Couchbase?  More ways than I can count.  I've seen some pretty amazing things done with it too.  In one deployment with hadoop, we saw a bulk load of Couchbase taking 3M ops a sec in sets.

Other cool stuff to know?  Trivia for later: port 8091 was originally port 8080.  We moved off of 8080 because too many things like Tomcat listen on 8080 by default.  There were a few that listened on 8090 by default.  8091 seemed safe, so we tried it.  I guess it has stuck!

I look forward to hearing from the rest of you soon!

Matt

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[Marco]

Hi fellow developers,

my name is Marco and I started to work in the IT just a month or two before the dotcom bubble went poof. Back in the days I started with Perl on Linux, tried and used all the popular *BSD distros, wrote PHP (sigh) and got stuck for a few years with it (sigh^10). Between 2004 and 2008 I were in charge of the frontend and the underlying infrastructure of a gaming website dealing with the Unreal Tournament series by Epic Games Inc. This is where I ran into real scalability issues the very first time, having to deal with increases of visitors and traffic as high as ~650% per year and massive spikes each new release and patch.

Around 2006/2007 I had to pick up C# as a job requirement to write desktop and web apps and learned to love it after the initial hurdles. 2008 I went to work abroad as lead developer for a publishing company that had massive scalability issues with their website which also affected the backend and controlling tools. The solution I came up with violates pretty much the whole RFC2616 (I am not particularly proud of that) but it works and still is in use today.

In spring of 2010 I started my own company, developing "scalable on demand" websites and apps for small/medium business with mediocre success, having to do "webdesign" to make ends meet. In 2011 I begun to explore the possibilities of the mobile market, developing a a webapp making use of traditional RDBMS and Couchbase. Within five days the app got removed from the market due to legal issues/uncertainties with the available content. An online demo can be found here.

The current project I am working usees Couchbase Server 2.0 in conjunction with ASP.net MVC 3. It is a SaaS targeting medical practices and health care service providers.

Cool stuff to know? Back in 2001 I helped develop a product for TEAC, an early SoHo NAS/hybrid firewall appliance named "Vendotto". It flopped terribly due to its elevated price. More cool stuff? When I took the technical lead of the gaming website, we migrated from Windows to Linux and finally FreeBSD. I had to teach the owner, a die hard Windows user, about Linux and FreeBSD. Nowadays he runs his own hosting company doing the whole shebang himself.

From what I understand this group is on the forefront of couchbase development and I am very, very flattered to be part of it and actually have a real chance to contribute to the betterment of awesome technology I already needed almost a decade ago ;) I am looking forward to be working with you and make Couchbase even sexier and better!

Yours,

Marco

[hardlifeofapo]

Hi all,

Well... I'm Pablo Casado, from Barcelona, Spain. My (say) expertise is in interoperable systems and mobile development.

I started coding in gwbasic when I was 7 or so. Many years later, I manage to get my Degree in Information Management Technologies and, then, my Master in Computer Science and Informatics.

I started a company in back 2007, focused on mobile application development. We did a lot of Java 2 Micro Edition those days, including a "iPod clone" for Nokias and Sony/Ericssons. Currently, the company creates iOS Apps, mainly.  After that, I was hired as the CTO of layers.com, an start-up on the consumer internet space that has developed Perso.na (for iPad, for Google Chrome). In layers, we did a lot of Javascript, PHP, and some Python and Oracle's PL/SQL. Our servers where in Amazon EC2 and we, as many others, experienced the massive Amazon outage back in April 2011. We also were involved in some e-leraning projects, such as Layers4Moodle: an annotation (read sticky notes) software on the top of Moodle's courses and activities. The most recent project I've been involved is presive.com, that involved the creation of an e-commerce platform using node.js and couchbase. This is when I discovered Couchbase and NoSQL.

Nowadays, I'm involved in a European reseach project involving semantic web and sentimental analysis of pieces of text from social networks. And I'm planning to use Couchbase for storing the semantic data. This project involves Java, Redis, Python and Couchbase.

In addition to that, I work as a part-time lecturer in the Computer Science school (www.fib.upc.edu) of Barcelona Tech (www.upc.edu), where I teach Software Engineering. We are planning to include a new course on NoSQL databases and I would love to use Couchbase for the teaching and exercises.

Happy to be here and glad to help in any way I can.

Cheers,

Pablo

[Ron Korving]

Hi all,

My name is Ron Korving, am born and raised in the Netherlands and work for a game company in Tokyo called Wizcorp. I started coding qbasic at the age of 12 when I was still under the impression MSDOS was a good thing. I've since moved on through Pascal, C, C++, Delphi, Clean (who knows that one?), Prolog, PHP, and more recently I'm developing mostly in JavaScript. In Wizcorp we focus on game development for the (often mobile) web, using HTML5 on the frontend and Node.js with Couchbase on the backend. We still use MySQL here and there, but the ratio Couchbase / MySQL is rapidly moving to Couchbase's favor.

At Wizcorp, where we started in the web consulting business, both me and Marc Trudel (I believe also in this group) were hired the same day (employees #3/4). We started in the all too common LAMP stack, but the day we discovered Node.js that all changed. We got some interesting opportunities to work on games, and have now shifted our entire business to it. We invested in the development of a game platform (used only internally at Wizcorp) we call Mithril (my baby), which later also received an investment from a Japanese social game company called GREE (now also a prominent company in the San Francisco area).

The Mithril platform does all its server work on Node.js, interfacing with Couchbase using the node-memcached library by fellow Dutchman Arnaut Kazemier. Realizing this library is not specifically designed to work with Couchbase, and will be lacking in view support, we started pushing for Node.js support last year at the CouchConf in Tokyo. Unfortunately, so far, as my time has been way more limited as I would like it, I have not been able to contribute much beyond the realm of conceptualization and endless chats with some of the amazing people on #libcouchbase, who have been incredible enough to put together a great start of integrating libcouchbase with the internals of Node.js. Progress on this can be seen here: https://github.com/trondn/couchnode

Time is always against us, and I wish my days had 48 hours in them. Nonetheless I hope we can get some solid experience with Couchbase 2 and contribute in any way we can!

As they say here, yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

[Matt Ingenthron]

Welcome Ron!

On 8/21/12 7:26 PM, "Ron Korving" <rkor...@wizcorp.jp> wrote:

The Mithril platform does all its server work on Node.js, interfacing with Couchbase using the node-memcached library by fellow Dutchman Arnaut Kazemier. Realizing this library is not specifically designed to work with Couchbase, and will be lacking in view support, we started pushing for Node.js support last year at the CouchConf in Tokyo. Unfortunately, so far, as my time has been way more limited as I would like it, I have not been able to contribute much beyond the realm of conceptualization and endless chats with some of the amazing people on #libcouchbase, who have been incredible enough to put together a great start of integrating libcouchbase with the internals of Node.js. Progress on this can be seen here: https://github.com/trondn/couchnode

Thanks for the kudos here.  Also, I have to give Mark Nunberg props for doing a lot of the work on it recently.  He's been working with styol in the #libcouchbase channel quite a bit.

Matt

[hardlifeofapo]

Hi Ron,

On 8/21/12 7:26 PM, "Ron Korving" <rkor...@wizcorp.jp> wrote:

The Mithril platform does all its server work on Node.js, interfacing with Couchbase using the node-memcached library by fellow Dutchman Arnaut Kazemier. Realizing this library is not specifically designed to work with Couchbase, and will be lacking in view support, ...

If you need to call views from node, take a look at this project on github, based on CouchDB's nano:  https://github.com/PatrickHeneise/baseview

It's from Patrick Heneise, an intense german guy that worked with me in the presive.com. As far as I know, the library itself is a bit buggy right now, but it works quite fine. Probably you can fork it and solve some of the problems there.

[Chris Anderson]

Hey all,

A quick background on me, and how I got here.

I got into writing web apps with the goal of helping my friends' bands share their music online. So I re-taught myself to program (PHP) and was off to the races.

3 years later, and having moved from PHP to Ruby on Rails, I finally realized that the music industry isn't really an industry, and at the same time got excited about database internals via the CouchDB project. That was also about the time I decided there aren't enough hours in the day for me to write application code in languages other than JavaScript. Luckily, node.js came along about then, so you can guess what I like to code for fun. :)

Chris

[MC Brown]

Hi everybody,

Just to provide a little background on me - as if there isn't enough material out there already.

My name is MC and I've been programming in just about any language I can get my hands on for the best part of the last 33 years. I'm fairly proficient in nearly all of them, but have a habit of slipping back into Perl for the majority of my work, simple because it so often works.

Over the years I've worked for a huge variety of companies, including big boys like Microsoft, Sun, MySQL, Oracle, and smaller operations most of you will never have ever heard of. Throughout that time I've tried my best not to be a programmer, but somehow have ended up spending all my life programming and then writing about it.

And that leads me to my greatest passion, which is creating great content so that other people can use and understand the technology they like. I've written over 27 books, more than 500 articles, and set up home at various publishers and online tech sites like IBM developerWorks, Computerworld and many others. Over the years that has got me involved in realtime programming, large scale Grid deployment, web development and, obviously, databases.

If you want to check out my stuff, I keep an archive at mcslp.net.

As to what I do in Couchbase? Pretty much everything now, having migrated off of MySQL for many years. There are only a few things I've found it can't do easily, and the complexities of the rest are generally easy to navigate around.

Right now though my focus is on making the documentation (couchbase.com/docs) the best it can be, and I'm open to suggestions and requests for reaching that goal. Just drop me an email and I'll see what I can do!

MC

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[Perry Krug]

Hi all, I'll chime in here as well...though I don't quite fit the mold of the rest of you.

I've been working with Couchbase for the last 2+ years, mostly on the pre- and post-sales technical side of things.  I've done a little doc work, a little QA work, you name if I've done it when we were just a 7 person team.

Without bragging too much (okay, a little), I know pretty much everything about everything when it comes to Couchbase and our customers. 

I'm gonna sit back most of the time on this list, but figured I would be present in some discussions so wanted y'all to know who this Perry guy was.

I don't code, I can do a little scripting...but my passion is for explaining how our software works and making it work in our customers/users environments.  I come from a few years background working with memcached.

I'm originally from NY (yea East Coast), been living in CA for 6 years (yea West Coast) and have been transferred to our London office (yea Rainy Coast) to be a local technical resource to Europe and the surrounding area.

If anyone's interested (and you've actually gotten this far), I'll be around the world this September in Israel, Japan, Korea, SF and finishing up for a few days in NY.

Seriously and furiously awaiting this release of 2.0, and so proud to have been with this company to the point at which we have all of your amazing people actually excited about what we're doing.

Go 8091!  (and ask me sometime about when it used to be 8080...but that's another story for another day)

Perry Krug

perr...@gmail.com

pe...@couchbase.com

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[Ron Korving]

That's very interesting!
I've been working with the guys on #libcouchbase to make a node module based on Trond Norbye's libcouchbase however. The idea behind it being that it would be a well supported and tested codebase that would benefit from the same fixes and improvements that most of the other SDKs do. The node-memcached module, while functional, is not well suited for Couchbase operations (feature set not complete enough, and too soft on error handling). Besides that, there could be a performance benefit of using a highly optimized C-library, although I can't provide any numbers there (we'll just have to wait and see.. Node.js is getting so fast however that it may prove me wrong).

I think we'll venture into that realm for now, and re-evaluate once we have a reliable and working solution. I really want to continue development on this as soon as possible.

[dsallings]

Hi, everyone.

I'm Dustin.  I co-founded couchbase (was membase (was northscale)) way back in the day.

I did the original memcached binary protocol implementation all of our junk rides on now.  I also wrote spymemcached, a python client and server (couple), an erlang server, a go server, go client, lots of one-off C and C++ clients, and probably other things.  A good deal of my code is on http://github.com/dustin

I do lots of random junk with couchbase, and data sets in general.  I have a few awesome experimental branches I'm hoping will someday see the light of day, but I do have a few labs projects that are rather interesting:

You can see some of my visualizations of one of our less stable clusters here (less stable == more exciting because it's doing stuff):

  http://cbvis.west.spy.net/?cluster=http%3A//orange.hq.couchbase.com%3A8091/

  http://cbvis.west.spy.net/static/vbuckets.html?cluster=http%3A//orange.hq.couchbase.com%3A8091/

My most recent couchbase project is evaluating new rebalance algorithms against node failures to detect failure loss scenarios (390 million non-trivial JSON documents come together to generate this page):

  http://single.couchbase.net/sim2/_design/simulation/_list/tests/runs?descending=true&stale=ok

  My blog ( http://dustin.github.com/ ) has a few things I've worked on, including using couchbase for analytics preprocessing to aggregate data sets for analytics in R:  http://dustin.github.com/2012/04/16/couchr.html -- I have a few of these that I run in-house that are actually kind of interesting, but I can't share them.

  I have a heatmap generator tool that I use to generate a kmz heatmap overlay of couchbase installations on google earth.  That's what the sample screenshot on the project is from: https://github.com/dustin/go-heatmap (if you want to see the real thing, see the attached kmz file -- it will auto-update and impress your friends).

  I do bits of everything from peeling concurrent requests out of packet dumps to making dumb API clients.  I'm most excited to see what everyone else is doing.

[Francis Varga]

Hi folks,

I'm Francis from Berlin. I working as Developer for Crowdpark.
I work over 2 years with membase, couchdb, redis.

We using already Couchbase Server 2.0 last recent build(1495) in production :).
Actually works pretty good, well there is not so many user (50k DAU) so it's nothing, but good environment to
test the CB.

I guess that's it :).

Cheers
Francis

[vs]

Hi All

I am very proud to be part of this group.  I am a Developer (Java/KJ2EE) and a technology blogger (http://www.transformativeparadigms.com).   I live in the New York City Area (specifically Stamford, CT).   I consult with an Investment Bank.   I am here to learn about NoSQL DB Couchbase obviously.   I am specifically interested in understanding from architectural point of view.  Is there any technical architecture document available for Couchbase?  Or any blog post that talks about the architecture of Couchbase?   If you any of view can share your knowledge in this area is much appreciated.

I am planning for a blog post for Couchbase.  Again, I am excited to be part of the group.

Regards

Venkk

[Jasdeep Jaitla]

This one by Ricky Ho is quite good: http://horicky.blogspot.com/2012/07/couchbase-architecture.html

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[Venkk Sastry]

Thanks Jasdeep

Sent from my iPhone

[Matt Ingenthron]

On 8/22/12 8:01 PM, "dsallings" <dsal...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm Dustin.  I co-founded couchbase (was membase (was northscale)) way back in the day.

Way back in the day is now 3.5 years ago?

[Perry Krug]

Yes

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[Nathan Vander Wilt]

Hi all! I'm @natevw and I'm interested in things.

I got into CouchDB in my Mac shareware days, after looking for/trying to design a better peer-to-peer sync solution for a while. It (along with better paying work than Mac shareware) got me back into the web stack and so the past few years the products I've been building and designing have mostly been web-native. Client-side I craft HTML and JavaScript using Fermata and d3.js as my "jQuery", and server side I tend to pick node.js or Django depending on the shape of the project.

I'm still interested in CouchDB for old school personal information management, using it in a bunch of always-in-progress open source projects including ShutterStem and and two location/mapping apps (https://github.com/natevw). I'm excited about Couchbase, though, as an easily scaled and easily monitored backing store for all the aerial/satellite map tiles I'm generating over at http://argyletiles.com — having a single-install database that can handily take care of most all my data needs (everything from active sessions, to user info, to whole binary files) will be incredibly convenient. Hope to do some more blogging/tweeting as I get up to speed with the differences and similarities Couchbase has from the CouchDB side of its family tree.

I've also been "distracted" evenings/weekends with balloon aerial photography and [attempts at] assembling a 3D printer and gearing up for some Teensy/RaspPi projects. While there's always more to learn in software, I've enjoyed being a total n00b at some more tactile endeavors.

Talk of which, by my watch, the weekend's pretty much upon us :-)

regards,

-natevw

On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 9:50:49 AM UTC-7, Jasdeep Jaitla wrote:

[Tony Fonager]

Hi everyone,

My name is Tony Fonager, I am a viking developer from Denmark, which has been developing using Microsoft technologies since 1995.

In 1998 I co-founded our current company, Netcoders ApS, which for the next 10 years developed web projects for clients, mostly danish projects.

For the past 3 years our focus have shifted to developing iOS apps, using C# and MonoTouch.

And as we (luckily) have seen some of our apps becoming quite popular, we have also realized that is was time to make a shift from our "old" Microsoft app backend platform (based on .NET web services and SQL Server), and look for a new way of creating more scalable backends, which hopefully will scale more easily to future demands.

So this is actually why I was introduced to Couchbase a while back, and currently we are rewriting our backend for an upcoming multiplayer iOS game, to support Couchbase instead of our "traditional" backend with the SQL Server.

We have already had interesting moments rewriting the backend, - we have cried, we have laughed, we have looked up into the skies and yelled "but why?", ... but I am sure that in a few weeks we have a brand new sparkling backend based on Couchbase (and .NET), which will make us prepared for future app backend demands.

I have promised Jasdeep to write about this process, going from a bloated slow SQL Server based backend, to a new Couchbase backend. So I'm not a Couchbase expert (yet), but I believe that where we are now as a company, with the decision to go from "old tech" to "new tech" is something tons of other companies and devs can relate to, so I hope I can share something useful to those....

I live just south of Copenhagen, Denmark, just turned 40 and have a beautiful wife and 3 kids.

Take care,

Tony

[Don Pinto]

Hi Folks,

I'm Don Pinto and I am a Product Marketing Manager at Couchbase! I'm really excited to be part of this group and about Couchbase Server 2.0. 

Before Couchbase, I spent a couple of years in the relational world, first as a software developer at IBM Toronto, Canada and most recently as a Program Manager on the SQL Server group at Microsoft. 

I live and work in Mountain View, California and love getting together with folks to talk tech and to implement project ideas.

Don

On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 9:50:49 AM UTC-7, Jasdeep Jaitla wrote:

[ken.williams]

Hello,

My name is Ken Williams I am the CTO at a social gaming company Sojo Studios where we deploy Couchbase as the primary data store for our applications. Prior to Sojo Studios I worked as a senior architect at Meteor Games where we also used Couchbase. I started on Couchbase almost three years ago when we where looking for better options to store user game data at Meteor. Our data set at the time included 35 million user records and was growing ~200k users per month. We had a heavy investment in MySQL, which included 8 quad xeon six core machines but it was soon time to do another upgrade. We looked into other options; membase, mongo, tokyo, cassandra and voldermort. I was immediately impressed with how much worked out of the box with Membase and it was all amazingly fast compared to MySQL. We moved our user game data to membase and kept account data in mysql and never looked back.

I came from a background in large scale databases however, and that's where my passion is. I worked as a senior engineer at Yahoo, and before that an Oracle DBA at Coventry health care. At Yahoo I worked on the largest production database in the world(1) which gave me a lot of good perspective on building things to scale. These days I am working more along the lines of my passion integrating Couchbase into data warehouses. Making couchbase work with products like Solr and Hadoop had been both a fun and interesting challenge. We're deeper into analytics than the "early days" of social gaming, and as such need to make deep queries between game data and event data. Social gaming is starting to get a real deep BI vibe to it, metrics are king. I've been really happy with my Couchbase experiences, it frees me to think about other things.

Outside of work I am into fishing, camping, shooting, 80's arcades, brewing beer and microcontrollers.

(1) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9087918/Size_matters_Yahoo_claims_2_petabyte_database_is_world_s_biggest_busiest

On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 9:50:49 AM UTC-7, Jasdeep Jaitla wrote:

[William]

Howdy Team 8091 Members!

My name is William Fleming, serial entrepreneur and consultant living in sunny San Luis Obispo, CA and loving life.  I have been in technology for about 17 years with an emphasis on systems architecture & design, cloud computing, network engineering and pretty much anything that smells or tastes like bleeding edge technology.  

I have made many attempts in the coding world and currently playing with Ruby on Rails.  I make absolutely no claim to the fact that I am a developer in any way shape or form, however I do love to get my feet into the sand a little.  For the past 8 years, I have had the opportunity to work primarily in the cloud computing industry with an emphasis in global deployments.

Over the years I have had the opportunity to work for a few big companies like Cisco, Nortel, and PG&E along with many other medium and small startups.  

When I am not consulting companies on cloud migrations and build outs, I keep my fingers on a few side projects.  Really the primary reason I am so passionate about Couchbase is for my latest venture {enter shameless plug} called Cloud|Scalr (http://www.cloudscalr.com).  Simply put, we are a "Database as a Service" provider and our database of choice is Couchbase.  While we are still wrapping up a few loose ends to get it launched, we are super excited about the possibilities and have many developers and companies that continue to drive our excitement to get it launched.

So while you may not find me contributing much to code development, you can be rest assured that I will be more than happy to contribute from a systems architectural stand point along with automation efficiencies.  Someday, I will have to compile my benchmark test results I was doing on Couchbase.  I am really looking forward to documenting out some performance results as it relates to running large numbers of data buckets using a multi-tenant architecture. 

I guess something "else that is cool about me" …  I enjoy having the opportunity to coach youth football, living really close to 5 different beaches and enjoying spending time with my awesome family.

Cheers.

William Fleming

On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 9:50:49 AM UTC-7, Jasdeep Jaitla wrote:

[Gareth]

Hi,

My name is Gareth Powell and I work on middleware infrastructure projects.

In particular, I'm looking at using Couchbase 2.0 as an all-purpose in-memory/persistent document store with indexing and incremental analysis.  One of the projects that I'm looking at is being able to do Hadoop-style analytics on top of the Couchbase Incremental Map/Reduce layer.

I used to work for TIBCO Software, and one way around or another, I'm completely addicted to the notions of "push" and "event-driven" software rather than query-driven.

I'm excited to see what Couchbase can do and how far it can be pushed without breaking!

Gareth

[Troy Gilbert]

Hi,

My name is Troy Gilbert. I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Mach 10
Studios, a very new startup in Austin, TX, focusing on mobile games.
I've been doing games of various kinds for the last 11 years (3D
console games, 2D browser games, now mobile games). First time
building the backend from scratch for a game of this scale. Familiar
with Membased from working at Zynga for the last year or so. Looking
forward to Couchbase 2.0.

Troy.

[EricTruter]

Hi all,

My name's Eric and I'm a senior .Net developer, SharePoint fanatic and technologist in South Africa. Been playing around with Memcached for a year or so (because Microsoft fan-boys don't use cache'd :D) and really like what Couchbase did with it.

As stated, I'm a .Net developer, dabble in other languages, of course, but my focus has always been around web architectures, and utilizing the Microsoft stack of tools to build for the ever growing web. Couchbase caught my attention in the early beta of 1.8 and have been playing around trying to abstract SharePoint data into a middle-tier that will be able to service applications, regardless of platform with data and of course vice versa, quite a strong undertaking must say, about a two year personal project I'm undertaking to expose SharePoint to the desktop.

[Joel Poloney]

Hey all,

I'm one of the founders of a new startup called Red Hot Labs, focused on building fun mobile applications. We're using Couchbase as our storage engine and I'm really excited to help out wherever I can.

I previously worked at Zynga, where I was one of the founding engineers and former lead architect of FarmVille. I helped build out the original sync back architecture years ago, which eventually turned in to Membase (long story there about Zynga's involvement with NorthScale and Membase development). I also helped run a team of engineers focused on building reusable, shareable tech inside the company. That team's game engine powers every flash game in the company.

I'm currently using Couchbase 1.8.x on a backend written in RoR. I've played around with the Couchbase 2.0 developer previews, but they were a little too unstable for me. But I'm super excited to see Couchbase 2.x goes in the coming months! In the mean time, I've been building out a bunch of internal tools to help give Couchbase 2.x functionality in a Couchbase 1.8 world :) I'm hoping to share some of those where it makes sense.

Joel

[Patrick]

Hi guys,

Last year I started using the Mobile Couchbase in sync with the Couchbase Single Server for an iPad App to transcribe heritage documents (https://github.com/PatrickHeneise/Transcribe). After that I created a social business intranet with time sheets and all that stuff on CouchDB, which demonstrated the limits of it, so I moved on to Couchbase for a social eCommerce system. Right now I'm building a mobile commerce system with Couchbase and GeoCouch extension, still with node.js. I created a small library to query views and spatial views (https://github.com/PatrickHeneise/baseview), but finally understood the power of keys, so not using views that often any more.

Hope I can help out with Couchbase and node.js related problems.

Patrick

[J Chris Anderson]

Just want to add that Patrick has been doing a killer job putting together the Barcelona Couchbase meetup group, so if you have any questions about how to setup a local meetup group, he's a great resource.

Ps you should all set up local meetup groups. :)

—Chris

http://www.couchbase.com/

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[Patrick]

Or come to Barcelona and visit us! ;)

http://www.meetup.com/The-Barcelona-Couchbase-Group/

[Tugdual]

Bonjour,

I am based in France, in Nantes to be exact. Some of you may have some questions about my first name "Tugdual", this is a pure breton first name (even in France it is not common). As you can guess: Tug is a lot easier for everybody.

I have joined Monday Couchbase as Technical Evangelist for EMEA Region, but you may have seen some Couchbase related content from me on my blog ( http://tugdualgrall.blogspot.com ), and various Couchbase/NoSQL community/forums. 

I love coding and sharing with others, this is why I am very happy to join this team. I am passionate about software architecture and I have mainly worked with Java from an enterprise/work point of view. I have also developed with PHP, Ruby, iOS... and many other Web related stuff. Lately in addition to Java, I have been discovering and enjoying Node.js.

I won't go in too much details about my professional experience, so here a quick summary : since 2008 I was working as CTO for eXo (Open source social platform and online IDE www.cloud-ide.com take a look to this one it is really cool !), and before that; 8 years at Oracle corp as Middleware Product Manager. I used to leave in Redwood City, CA from 2001 to 2006, and really enjoyed it. 

 

But like all of you I have also a life away from the keyboard.  When I am not working or taking care of my kids, I am spending lot of time training for triathlon. Regarding sports I am the opposite of Couchbase : I am slow and "stiff". I was able to mix the pleasure of triathlon and development when I started to work on www.resultri.com . A Google AppEngine based application, as you can see I am NOT a Web designer. Using Google GigTable was an interesting thing.

I love traveling, meet new people, and discover new meals; especially street food wherever I go, had "great" experiences in India, Vietnam and Argentina but you probably do not want to know more about it.

So to finish:

- I am co-founder of Nantes JUG (Java User Group). A JUG that organizes monthly conferences about technology and architecture -Java mainly but we are open-

- I am available for conferences, talks, meetups in EMEA do not hesitate to ping me if you organize or know about interesting events.

- follow me on twitter @tgrall

Enjoy Couchbase!

Tug

[onc]

Hi All,

I am happy to be here. 

First some infos about myself,

I am web technology expert on programming and server administration at IT Department of Uludağ University  ( i programmed and designed many pages under Uludağ University as main page.) I am also lecturer. I have master degree on Industrial Engineering. so i use my knowloadge both for service and academic areas.

I specially use php,mysql for my projects. But i use many languages in my projects. ( mostly other languages: c#, python, actionscript ) My first target is to make some pages more interactive while using couchbase.

I used couchbase 1.8 in my developer machine. I am planning to use it our product servers.

Thats all i can say about me. Thank you all and nice to meet you.

[Gopi]

Hi All

    I am working as a Research and developer in Akaara Consulting in Bangalore(India). I am new to industry. I joined just before 2 months. Here we using .net and c#. 

For our next project we planing to use couch base and i am trying to learn it. I hope you guys help me to find solution for my problems.

There i am getting training in couchbase 2.0 

[juan.simon]

Top of the morning to all!

My name is Juan S. Simon (jsimon),
I'm an "Analyst Developer" based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I'm 26 years old and spent half of my life doing what I love.

I started with PHP when I was 13/14 years old and have not stopped since, many other langs competed for my attention and I have to say lately JavaScript is winning (node.js, jQuery, backbone.js, AngularJS, Bootstrap, etc...) 

the list of things I appreciate sort of goes like this:

["The entire Couchbase team", "Couchbase", "PHP", "MySQL", "HTML5", "CSS3", "JavaScript", "BASH", "Ubuntu", "awk", "github", "Android", "Chrome", "Sublime Text 2"]

I can't really say what I'm using Couchbase for (NDA), but I can say I'm having a blast using it.

My other experience... Hmm... I don't know, lets save that for latter.

Something else cool to know:

In archery, after the release of the bow string two amazing things happen,

First: The arrow bends under the pressure of the bow string, going back to it's natural form and stabilizing about 3 to 4 meters  (9 to 12 feet) away from the bow.

Second: The bow detaches from the archer, flying away from him in the same direction the as the arrow. (The bow does not actually fly away, it is attached to the archer by a bow sling).

Hopping to be a productive member of the Team,

Juan S. Simon

[Steffen Larsen]

Hi All,

Tug invited me to this group, so I promised him to introduce myself.

I'm Steffen Larsen, a software dude living in Copenhagen, having my own consultancy company (BrainTrust ApS).

I'm an experienced, polyglot software developer, that have been developing software for more than 15 years. Using all kind of machines, OS'es and languages, but mostly Java (JSE/JEE), Javascript, node.js. Even tought I've coded a bit in C, Erlang and python.. Even assembler (MISC/RISC) but thats a decade ago. :-) 

I Have a master degree in Computer Science (M.Sc.) from Copenhagen university working on distributed systems and XMPP. So as you can guess, I have a big love for distributed systems and a huge interest in new technology. I am a contributor for various projects in the open source and open standards world. Official member and contributor for the XMPP (Jabber) protocol. Sitting in the XSF (XMPP Standard Foundation) that build specifications for both for RFCs and for internal extensions (XEPs).

I've been working as a local gun for hire (consultant) for a couple of years now doing all kinds of assignments. But at the moment I am working as a consultant and a technical lead for large cable operator in Denmark. Implementing their metadata workflow for handling video on-demand and flow TV. Moving it from a monolithic core to a distributed and large scale application that can handle large scale data - including using Couchbase and memcached for persisting the metadata.

I am looking forward to make the SDKs (especially java and node.js) more robust and the couchbase server even more enterprise ready.

What can I say more? Software is my job, my hobby, my way to relax!

-Cheers!

/Steffen

Twitter: https://twitter.com/zooldk

Blog: http://zooldk.blogspot.com

Mail/XMPP: zoo...@gmail.com / sla...@braintrust.dk

[brad]

Hello All, my name is Brad Wood and Tug invited me here.

I'm a software architect who lives in Kansas City with my wife and 3 girls.  I went to school for computer science and music.  I've been programming since 8th grade (Logo Writer, anyone?) and as actual job since I was in college around 2001.  I've been a SQL Server DBA, and a lot of JavaScript work-- especially with frameworks like Backbone.js.  

Languages I've dabbled with include Visual Basic, C++, ActionScript, and Java.  The main language I've paid the bills with for about 12 years is CFML- a Java-based web scripting language that uses a mixture of tags for templating and script for everything else.  Despite the "old" stigma ColdFusion seems to have, it's actually a very productive language that's advanced significantly over the years.  

I'm a huge fan of CF and regularly tell people that if they don't like CF, they probably haven't looked at it in the past 5 years.  One interesting fact about CF is that it was created in 1995-- the same year the world first saw Java, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript.  Lately, I've been working less with Adobe's commercial ColdFusion, and more with a professional open source community version called Railo.  Railo is free, fast, almost completely compatible with Adobe CF, and actually has more features/extensibility.  

I am also the platform evangelist for the ColdBox MVC framework, which is a Grails-like convention-based enterprise framework and application toolset for CFML with modular libraries for logging, DI/AOP, mocking, and caching.  Honestly, people who don't use CF usually have no idea these kind of tools even exist in the space :)   I also contribute code and help evangelize the ContentBox Modular CMS which is a slick ORM-based CFML CMS built on the ColdBox framework.

So, the CF world is making their way into NoSQL and Memcached-style caching.  There are CF libraries out there for MongoDB (in fact, native support is coming soon in Railo) and many Java libraries for Memcached, etc that are usable by CF.  The frameworks and tools I listed above that I evangelize are professional open source and I currently work for the company that supports them, Ortus Solutions.  This is where everything intersects.  

Our goal at Ortus is to introduce the CF world to Couchbase (which we have been falling in love with the more we use it).  We have been building tools for CF developers to use Couchbase in their CF projects easily.  We're about to release a blog series on using Couchbase Server as a Hibernate ORM secondary cache in CFML (which has Hibernate ORM baked in). We are also finishing up a CacheBox provider for Couchbase for a simple caching API in the form of our enterprise cache aggregator.  Also, we are working on a Railo extension (Think Ruby Gem, but for CFML) to add Couchbase support for the extensible caching functions when using CFML on Railo.  We are excited about these integrations and see the CF-scape as an open field of developers waiting to be introduced to noSQL and caching the Couchbase way.

Geez, sorry for rambling-- that's what happens when someone gives me a keyboard.  I'd love to chat more about our CFML integrations with Couchbase if anyone is interested.

[lmajano]

Hi everybody!

My name is Luis Majano and I was also invited by Tug alongside Brad Wood; we work together here at Ortus.

I am a computer engineer by trade, born in sunny and earthquaky El Salvador and now living in Rancho Cucamonga, California with my wife, baby girl Alexia and baby boy Lucas coming November 2, 2013 :)

My background has been electrical engineering, architecture and design for over 13 years now.  Much like Brad I fell in love with the ColdFusion programming language due to is tight integration with Java and being a dynamic language on the JVM; It has been my main programming language for over 10 years now and I have also worked with software languages like c/c++, groovy, Java, and yes, assemby and microcontroller language.

I am the owner of Ortus Solutions, a consulting firm specialinzing in professional open source.  I am the creator of the ColdBox MVC development platform (www.coldbox.org) for ColdFusion (Analogous to Grails or Rails in other languages), WireBox : Dependency Injection and AOP framework, LogBox: Enterprise Logging inspired by Log4J, MockBox : Mocking & Stubbing library, CacheBox: Enterprise cache and aggregator and ContentBox Modular CMS (www.gocontentbox.org).

I started playing with CouchDB long time ago and absolutely loved it.  Caching has been a weird passion of mine and when Couchbase was announced with both NoSQL and caching capabilities I absolutely started to work with it.  It has now became the standard for infrastructure elements we build at Ortus for clients and this has spawned several projects at Ortus both open and commercial around Couchbase.

As Brad mentioned, our goal is to introduce Couchbase to the CFML community not only as a caching engine but also as a NoSQL database.  We are really interested to see how to leverage those capabilities with CFML or even hibernate as well.  We are looking forward to helping evangelize and also collaborate if possible!

Gracias!

[Cihan Biyikoglu]

Hi team, I am new to 8091 so here my intro;

I am in Product Management at Couchbase. I am a bigdata and nosql/sql enthusiast. Before joining Couchbase, I was in technical program management at Twitter, Microsoft SQL Azure and SQL Server platforms in the Server Products Division and Microsoft HealthVault platform under Microsoft Research. Previously in distant past, I also worked on database technologies such as Illustra and Informix Dynamic Server at Informix.
With the Couchbase Server 3.0 beta coming soon, I hope we'll get to work together as part of this team.
Many Thanks

Cihan Biyikoglu - Couchbase Inc.