Category: Best Practices and Tutorials

Introducing Capella Columnar SDKs: Powering Modern Data Analytics
Couchbase continues to lead the way in enabling high-performance data analytics with the introduction of SDKs for Capella Columnar, its cutting-edge analytical database, designed for real-time JSON analytics with zero ETL and options for operational write-back. For developers who need...

How AI Personalization is Improving CX and Business Performance
AI personalization has transformed customer experience (CX) by delivering tailored interactions that meet specific needs in real time. It’s been applied across various fields, including finance, e-commerce, healthcare, and entertainment. From product recommendations to predictive customer service, businesses are leveraging...

How to Migrate MongoDB Device Sync (Realm) Apps to Couchbase Capella App Services
The developer community has expressed significant concern following MongoDB Atlas’s deprecation announcement of their edge and mobile capabilities. In an earlier post, we explored why Couchbase Mobile is a strong alternative for supporting your offline-first data sync requirements. In this...

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...