Neighbourhoodie Software

Don’t miss your chance to let us know how and why you use @couchdb@fosstodon.org — and what you’d like to see more and less of — in the latest user survey: https://forms.gle/KGkPp8qxmwyrTrJR6

We would love to hear from you and your colleagues, boosts are welcome 📢

We’ve got another reason not to miss @FOSSBackstage@floss.social this year — 16-17 March 2026, Berlin ✨

@janl@narrativ.es will recap highlights from 2.5 years of contributing to tech’s favourite FOSS projects through @sovtechfund@mastodon.social’s Tech Resiliency program.

Join us on day 1 of the conference to learn what really keeps open source projects strong and safe 🔒

Session: https://26.foss-backstage.de/session/2-5-years-of-sta-bug-resilience-how-we-helped-a-lot-of-foss/

🎫 Tickets: https://26.foss-backstage.de/tickets

#FOSSBack

Help shape the future of @couchdb@fosstodon.org 📣

It’s time again for the Annual Apache #CouchDB User Survey, where we collect insights that help project contributors prioritise what to build, write about and enhance.

Take part in the 2025 - 2026 survey: https://forms.gle/KGkPp8qxmwyrTrJR6

Boosts and shares appreciated — let’s reach as many users as we can! 🌐

Take a look at last year’s results to learn how the findings will be shared: https://blog.couchdb.org/2025/06/18/2024-apache-couchdb-user-survey-results/

We’re presenting in the @localfirst@fosstodon.org devroom in a few hours ✨

Make your way to room K.3.201 by 16:20 CET to join us. Keep an eye out for Alex or @janl@narrativ.es to check you’re in the right place.

Session info: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SDHGJY-local-first-meet-pouchdb-couchdb/

Catch the live stream: https://live.fosdem.org/watch/k3201

It’s this weekend! 👏

This Sunday @janl@narrativ.es and Alex Feyerke will be at @fosdem@fosstodon.org in the @localfirst@fosstodon.org devroom.

Join us from 16:20 - 16:40 CET for an intro to Local First heroes @couchdb@fosstodon.org and @pouchdb@fosstodon.org, the sync engine that handles conflicts out-of-the-box without configuring CRDTs first (and the option to forego them entirely).

We also cover easy and open source self-hosting 🛎️

https://openlocalfirst.org/schedules/#21-local-first-meet-pouchdb-couchdb

Admission is free! Catch the live stream if you can’t make it: https://live.fosdem.org/watch/k3201

Take part in EU Open Source Week with us at @fosdem@fosstodon.org Jan 31 + Feb 1, 2026 in Brussels

We’re proudly participating in the (first ever!) @localfirst@fosstodon.org devroom to talk sync engines and CRDTs on February 1st 🎉

Alex Feyerke will present @couchdb@fosstodon.org and @pouchdb@fosstodon.org, two Local First #OpenSource pioneers consistently found behind highly impactful projects with a huge human scale: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SDHGJY-local-first-meet-pouchdb-couchdb/

ℹ️ https://openlocalfirst.org/

🏠 https://fosdem.org/2026/

🎟️ Free!

2025 is winding down! 🎇

So much happened this year. Our team is very proud to look back on all the achievements, collaborations and projects that made their way onto our calendar.

We have so many people to thank! And so many cool things to remember. Check out the thread for a peek 📜

The Annual Apache @couchdb@fosstodon.org User Survey for 2025 is here! And we want to hear from you 📣

Are you using the brand new ✨ 3.5.1 ✨? Prefer another version? Want more of something? Or wouldn’t miss it if something went away?

Let us know until late Feb 2026! 🔽

https://forms.gle/9nDiXBKvMGj6EUgj8

In 2024 we discovered why CouchDB draws such loyalty, check it out: https://blog.couchdb.org/2025/06/18/2024-apache-couchdb-user-survey-results/

The Neighbourhoodie team could be gracing your television screen this weekend!

Turn on:
📺 RTL7 on Sunday at 12:00 CET and
📺 RTLZ on Monday at 16:30 CET to catch our contribution to Europe Connected’s Berlin edition.

The show focuses on innovation in business, and we’re very excited to have taken part. Check out this snippet of what’s in store: https://youtu.be/V80Xa64fTSE

There’s more than one way to automate conflict resolution in your #OfflineFirst database

@couchdb@fosstodon.org makes it easy and notoriously reliable by choosing a deterministic winner and storing conflicts

The best part?

🖼️ You can manage conflicts yourself in CouchDB’s built-in UI, Fauxton!

Find out how on our blog:

https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/10/15/conflict-resolution-in-couchdb-with-fauxton?pk_campaign=mastodon&pk_kwd=conflictres

@couchdb@fosstodon.org 3.5.1 is officially out! 🎉

There’s a lot in this maintenance release:

🚮 Improved purges — including ~30% speed gains for big batches

🧵UUID v7 _id generation as a built-in option

🔌 Enhanced and speedier bulk endpoints

➕ more!

We recommend switching to QuickJS over SpiderMonkey so you’re ready when it becomes the default JS engine in 3.6.0+

Catch all the release notes:
https://blog.couchdb.org/2025/11/11/3-5-1/

Plus our tips on setting up QuickJS: https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2024/09/23/couchdb-3-4-0-feature-quickjs?pk_campaign=mastodon&pk_kwd=3.5.1

Our team is very proud to be contributing to @gnome@floss.social thanks to support from @sovtechfund@mastodon.social’s Tech Resilience program: https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/10/03/gnome-foundation-update-2025-10-03/

A big thanks to their team for a great collab 🙌

We’ve wrapped up our work on Blueprint, a markup language for GTK UIs: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/blueprint-compiler

We can’t wait to share what we do next

#Sharding is (another) one of the things that makes @couchdb@fosstodon.org such a scalable distributed database 📐

It’s an architectural consideration that very few DBs make as automatic and transparent as CouchDB.

We cover, in depth:
- what shards are
- how #CouchDB uses them
- performance gains and trade-offs

in our new post:
https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/10/01/first-steps-sharding-in-couchdb?pk_campaign=mastodon&pk_kwd=shard

“All software benchmarks and claims of performance are *carefully crafted lies* and this write-up is *no different*.”

Looking for honest numbers?

Earlier this year we got to help a customer make some huge performance gains 📈

Give it a read if you’ve been trying to #benchmark your own #Erlang or @couchdb@fosstodon.org project in search of improvements: https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03/04/case-study-10x-couchdb-performance-gains-for-a-aaa-game-launch?pk_campaign=mastodon&pk_kwd=aaa

If you get stuck, let us know! We’re always curious and eager to help.

Congratulations @couchdb@fosstodon.org 🥳 🎉

Apache CouchDB ’s application to @sovtechfund@mastodon.social’s Tech Resilience program was successful!

We can’t wait to share details of CouchDB’s enhanced durability once improvements are shipped.

If you want to do the same for your #FOSS project, take a look at the requirements and apply: https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/bug-resilience

This is the most fun you’ll have choosing your next #LocalFirst #OfflineFirst stack:

https://www.localfirst.fm/landscape

You’ll find @pouchdb@fosstodon.org and @couchdb@fosstodon.org in there too, with filters to help you maximise compatibility for your next use case

Thanks to @localfirstfm@mastodon.social for putting it together ✨

As we saw at the @localfirstconf@mastodon.social this year, initial sync in #OfflineFirst and #LocalFirst can be tricky to build and slow for users.

Our team wrote up some ways @pouchdb@fosstodon.org and @couchdb@fosstodon.org are able to do “Partial Data Fetching on Initial Load,” including filtered replication or switching to a remote DB.

More about these strategies and how to implement them on our blog:

https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/07/16/partial-data-fetching-on-initial-load-with-pouchdb-and-couchdb?pk_campaign=mastodon%20partial%20load

We’re curating a monthly CouchDB Digest again! 🗞️

We collect articles, tutorials, videos, user stories and community tools from the last month.

If you missed having a regular roundup of writing about @couchdb@fosstodon.org from all the sources we trust, catch it on the CouchDB Blog: https://blog.couchdb.org/2025/07/08/couchdb-digest-june-2025/

Or on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/couchdb-digest-june-2025-neighbourhoodie-axpwe/?trackingId=xatdmr0pTWOtrxGXPIBD3g%3D%3D

@couchdb@fosstodon.org keeps your data — and your team — safer thanks to #2FA.

Our new blog post shows you how it works and details set-up instructions for this extra security feature: https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/06/25/why-use-two-factor-authentication-2fa-in-couchdb

Are you using #Nouveau for full-text search in @couchdb@fosstodon.org?

It’s the much faster way to do:

🔍fuzzy search
🔍and facet queries
🔍with counts and ranges

Check out our video to see it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2IXRKpVTFY

Recap time!

Last week our team checked in at @localfirstconf@mastodon.social connected with great minds, hosted a packed workshop (thanks to all who joined!) and shared @couchdb@fosstodon.org stories on stage.

📖 Read the full rundown: https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/06/04/local-first-conf-recap

📽️ Missed the workshop? Catch the full recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Q7An1Co68

⏲️ More talks will be published soon — including one from @janl@narrativ.es

We had a great time! ✨ Can’t wait until next year

Come see CouchDB + PouchDB in person!

In Berlin next week? Join us for workshop in Neukölln and ✨ build an offline app ✨ during @localfirstconf@mastodon.social’s Community Day this Monday.

🤓 Keen for @couchdb@fosstodon.org + PouchDB tips?
🤓 Got questions about libraries?
🤓 Curious how we sync with our favourite tech?

Register to join us and find out: https://lu.ma/v8ggp0u9

🛎️ It’s tomorrow! Are you joining our Online #CouchDB Meetup from 17:00 - 18:30 CET, on Oct 9?

3.4.0 + 3.4.1 have been out for a couple weeks now, and they brought #QuickJS with them. It’s the new #JavaScript engine for CouchDB that speeds up queries and server-side processing.

Get a detailed introduction from @ninette@mastodon.social in Talk #2 and learn why others are delighted about how it enhances custom functions.

Sign up and check out the others talks: https://vi.to/hubs/couchdb-berlin

📣 The major #Apache @couchdb@fosstodon.org release means... we’re hosting a Meetup!

Celebrate 3.4.0 + 3.4.1 with @janl@narrativ.es, Alex Feyerke and @ninette@mastodon.social on Oct 9 at 5pm CET. New to CouchDB or experienced? We think you’ll have fun!

Talk #1: CouchDB 3.4.0 / 3.4.1 Release Retrospective (Jan Lehnardt @janl@narrativ.es)

Talk #2: Introducing QuickJS: CouchDB’s New JavaScript Engine (Ninette Adhikari)

Talk #3: First Steps With Nouveau, CouchDB’s New Fulltext Search Feature (Alex Feyerke)

Sign up here: https://vi.to/hubs/couchdb-berlin