Prior last week’s Erlang Factory, we ran the CouchDB University, a three day training course where Chris & I taught a group of eleven all about CouchDB.
First of all, thanks to all students to sign up for this first installment of a commercial CouchDB training. It is great to see that our work gets validated that way. It also shows that CouchDB is a hot topic.
We went through all areas of CouchDB: An introductory overview, the HTTP API basics, setup and administration, basic and advanced view theory and practice, replication and distributed setups, performance tricks, CouchApps and finally internals.
I feel we could have gone on for five days. Despite fearing to not have enough material. It panned out pretty well.
Special thanks to Kevin Ferguson and Paul Davis. Kevin gave an introduction to couchdb-lounge, meebo.com’s CouchDB add-on that adds sharding, auto-replication and failover. Paul gave an tour through couchdb-lucene, Robert Newson’s add-on that adds fulltext search to CouchDB.
The next round of training will be in London in June. If you missed the Palo Alto event and can’t make it to London, please get in touch and we can try and see if we can set something up in your neighbourhood.
