Category: Best Practices and Tutorials
Part 2 – AI in Action: Enhancing and Not Replacing Jobs
Welcome back to the second part of our two-part series on building an interactive customer service support application that empowers support agents with the help of AI. The goal is to enhance their important work by leveraging previously resolved answers...
An Overview of Cloud Development
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses develop and deploy applications. In addition to saving time and money, it ensures that developers don’t have to rely solely on coding on their local machine and hope for the best when everything...
Enhancing Performance Using XATTRs for Vector Storage and Search
With the introduction of vector search, users can now store large vector arrays—often made up of seemingly arbitrary numbers—within their documents. Since this data isn’t required for most standard queries, users can now leverage extended attributes (XATTRs), which are part...
AI in Action: Enhancing and Not Replacing Jobs
Part 1 – Building with Vonage and Couchbase to transform communication and data Let’s imagine a paradigm shift in the way we perceive the role of AI in the workplace. Instead of AI replacing roles, what if it comes to...
New To Capella Free Tier? 10 Things For You To Know
The wait for a Capella perpetual free tier is over! Now the Couchbase DBaaS is available to all: students, hobbyists, startups, and enterprises alike. For those brand new to the Couchbase ecosystem, here are 10 resources you should check out...
From Concept to Code: LLM + RAG with Couchbase
GenAI technologies are definitely a trending item in 2023 and 2024, and because I work for Tikal, which publishes its own annual technology radar and trends report, LLM and genAI did not escape my attention. As a developer myself, I...
High Availability Architecture: Requirements & Best Practices
What is high availability in cloud computing? High availability (HA) in cloud computing means ensuring that services and applications are always up and running, even if something goes wrong. It involves having backup systems, automatically switching to those backups if...
Capella Columnar RBAC: Ensuring Data Security and Controlled Access
Controlling who can do what in your application is crucial, and in many cases not everyone should have the same permissions or capabilities in the application, as this can lead to security risks and operational inefficiencies. In this blog, we...
Introducing the New Couchbase Ruby ORM
A practical guide for Ruby applications Ruby remains one of the most popular choices for building scalable applications, and Ruby on Rails continues to be one of the most flexible and robust web frameworks available. Notwithstanding the developer ease with...
Query Stellar Blockchain Trades With Couchbase Capella
Previously, we shared a post on how to monitor Stellar assets using Couchbase. In this follow-up, we’ll demonstrate how to load recent Stellar blockchain transactions (e.g., trades) into our Capella DBaaS, making them easily accessible for use in sample applications....
Natural Language Programming: Applications and Benefits
What is Natural Language Programming? Natural language programming (NLP) is a form of programming where the instructions are written in human language, typically English. This approach makes writing code more intuitive and accessible to non-programmers because code is written in...
A Step-by-Step Guide to Preparing Data for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
In today’s data-driven world, the ability to efficiently gather and prepare data is crucial for the success of any application. Whether you’re developing a chatbot, a recommendation system, or any AI-driven solution, the quality and structure of your data can...