A Busy Week

Last week was a busy week.

In “Hacking CouchDB, learning Erlang and testing in Javascript” Alex sums up the 5-day stunt where we wrote statistics module for CouchDB. He touches on unit testing for CouchDB in JavaScript and Erlang and pair programming. I think we both learned a lot during the week.

We worked really hard and it was exhausting, but we came up with something pretty neat:

GET /_stats/httpd/requests

{
  "current": 34636577,
  "aggregated": {
    "min": 10,
    "max": 1000,
    "average": 45,
    "stddev": 3,
    "timespan":60
  }

Hooray for monitoring CouchDB production systems.

Lessons learned

1. Pair programming is effective, especially when you tread new ground. I recommend giving it a try.

2. There’s not enough you can learn about improving software quality during development.

3. Erlang is addictive.