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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 22/07/2026

Looking for a way to get fast SQL queries in @couchdb.bsky.social ? 🔍 We have good news! Structured Query Server is now available for a monthly subscription! It was previously only available as a one-time license, but we wanted to lower the bar to entry so more people could try it. Check it out:

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Neighbourhoodie - Structured Query Server

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 10/06/2026

The Apache CouchDB User Survey results are out 📣 If you’re already a user and want to know which libraries and impressive metrics others have to share, read on! If you’re not yet a user, we can only repeat: @couchdb.bsky.social is loved for its reliability and ease of use 🫶

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2025-2026 Apache CouchDB User Survey: Results

The results of this survey round revealed that CouchDB is a feature of new trends — like offline sync — but also remains loved for foundational features and resilience. A greater proportion of peop…

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 08/06/2026

Come bottleneck hunting with us at @berlinbuzzwords.de! 🔍 At 16:30 in the Kesselhaus @janl.bsky.narrativ.es will show you the methodic and rigorous steps our team took to help an AAA game publisher achieve 10x CouchDB performance. Session details: 2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/10x-...

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10x CouchDB Performance Gains for a AAA Game Launch

All software benchmarks and claims of performance are carefully crafted lies and this talk is no different. Instead of giving you a quick “do steps one, two, three for a magic speedup”, we aim to expl...

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 08/05/2026

CouchDB has a monthly digest! 🗞️ You can keep up with news from the @couchdb ecosystem, plus the odd bit of PouchDB news, the first week of every month on the CouchDB Blog. Take a look at the most recent edition. Did we miss anything? 💬 Let us know!

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CouchDB Digest — April 2026

This month there are quite a few CouchDB video tutorials, plus benchmarks and a bunch of tools to aid your work with CouchDB.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 05/05/2026

We offer CouchDB training to get your team up-to-date with CouchDB and your internal standards sharp (and consistent!) 🎓 We recently shared the full syllabus on our website. We’re happy we got around to this 🙌 Reach out if you’re curious to learn how we can help your team or project

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Neighbourhoodie - CouchDB Training

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 28/04/2026

We gave our most popular product a fresh coat of paint! 🎨 Our CouchDB Architecture Review gives you a prioritised run-down of issues and opportunities in your CouchDB — including resource-saving suggestions. Our website now better reflects what you can look forward to, check it out:

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Neighbourhoodie - Architecture Review

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 23/04/2026

We’re hosting a @couchdb.bsky.social & @pouchdb.bsky.social Hackday on July 11 as a warm-up for the @localfirstconf.com 🎉 Join us in our Berlin office to discover these sync pioneers, help others, or get an intro to contributing. RSVP to meet others ahead of the conference kick-off on the 12th:

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Neighbourhoodie - Announcing CouchDB & PouchDB Hackday Berlin 2026

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 20/04/2026

Another big thank you to the @foss-backstage.de team for a great conference! In mid-March we met up with builders and users of our favourite ecosystems, plus the advocates behind them. Recordings are now up! 📼 Catch @janl.bsky.narrativ.es presenting on the security track:

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Jan Lehnardt – 2.5 Years of STA Bug Resilience: how we helped a lot of FOSS #FOSSBack

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 14/04/2026

Watching that “update contributor docs” ticket slide down the backlog? 👀 Thanks to support from the @sovereign.tech we got to help Reproducible Builds catch a break Our thanks to the team for the welcome and trust to make their project more resilient.

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Neighbourhoodie - NH:STA S01E06 Reproducible Builds

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 31/03/2026

Special episode with #PHP just landed! With @sovereign.tech support, we got to work with the PHP project twice 👯 We’re very grateful to have helped out one of the web’s most important (and best documented!) open source projects. Find out how we helped with deployments and monitoring:

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Neighbourhoodie - NH:STA Special Episode with PHP

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 18/03/2026

🗓️ Mark your calendars — @localfirstconf.com is happening this July 12-14 in Berlin We’ll definitely be there! If sync, P2P, conflicts and data ownership pique your interest, you’ll want to be there too. We may even have a CouchDB & PouchDB surprise. Check out the call for papers:

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Schedule, talks and talk submissions for Local-First Conf 2026

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Jan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es · 16/03/2026

Find me at #FOSSBack o/ Talk to me about: - whatever fun thing that occupies you right now - the sovereign tech agency and contributing to free and open source software - offline capable apps My talk is today at 12:10 :)

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 11/03/2026

Offline with no CRDTs?! At #FOSDEM earlier this month our colleague Alex Feyerke got to introduce local-first pioneers @couchdb.bsky.social and @pouchdb.bsky.social in the @localfirst.bsky.social devroom, a space dedicated to all things sync, P2P and conflict resolution. 📼 Check out Alex’ talk

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 09/03/2026

We’re one week out and getting very excited ✨ Tickets are still available, including a remote option if you can’t be in Berlin in person. We hope to see you there!

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 17/02/2026

More reasons to join @foss-backstage.de, March 16-17, 2026 in Berlin 👇 @janl.bsky.narrativ.es will recap our contributions through the @sovereign.tech’s Tech Resiliency program: 26.foss-backstage.de/session/2-5-... Join us on 16.03.2026 to learn what really keeps FOSS projects strong and safe 🔒

Jan Lehnardt from the Neighbourhoodie team will present “2.5 Years of STA Bug Resilience: how we helped a lot of FOSS” at FOSS Backstage this year. If you’re curious to learn more about what the Sovereign Tech Agency’s support has meant for the open source ecosystem, and what we’ve learned as the official implementation partner on the way, grab your ticket and join us there.

In this photograph, Jan Lehnardt smiles at us from a beach with lush greenery in the background. Jan has been contributing to open source projects for over 15 years and has put that breadth of knowledge to good use supporting projects including PHP, systemd, Log4j and more through the Tech Resilience program.

FOSS Backstage takes place in Berlin from 16-17 March 2026. You can join in person or online, so don’t miss out — grab your ticket and we’ll catch you there.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 03/02/2026

Help shape the future of @couchdb.bsky.social! 📣 It’s time for the 2025 - 2026 Annual Apache CouchDB User Survey, where we learn what to build, write about and enhance. Boosts and shares appreciated — let’s reach as many users as we can! 🌐

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2025 Annual Apache CouchDB User Survey

This questionnaire is our annual check-in with the greater CouchDB community to gauge how you’re using and/or feeling about CouchDB. It helps gather feedback on specific areas (features, versions, doc...

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 01/02/2026

We’re presenting in the #FOSDEM @localfirst.bsky.social devroom in a few hours ✨ 📍 K.3.201 at 16:20 CET Keep an eye out for Alex or @janl.bsky.narrativ.es to check you’re in the right place. All the details: fosdem.org/2026/schedul... Catch the live stream: live.fosdem.org/watch/k3201

Meet Alex Feyerke, presenting today (1.2.2026) in the Local-First devroom. After detours through graphic design, studying media and literature at university and spending far too much time freelancing for ad agencies, Alex eventually co-founded Neighbourhoodie Software in Berlin, where he can finally do something useful: work on projects that genuinely improve people’s lives. He’s been designing and building offline-first apps since 2013, when he helped coin the term Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 28/01/2026

It’s this weekend! 👏 This Sunday @janl.bsky.narrativ.es and Alex Feyerke will be at @fosdem.org in the @localfirst.bsky.social devroom Come meet Local First heroes @couchdb.bsky.social & @pouchdb.bsky.social, the sync engine where CRDTs are optional We also cover easy, open source self-hosting 🛎️

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 17/12/2025

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 📜

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 10/12/2025

The Annual Apache @couchdb.bsky.social User Survey 2025 is here! We want to hear from you 📣 Using ✨ 3.5.1 ✨ yet? Prefer another version? Want more of something? Wouldn’t miss it if something went away? Let us know until late Feb 2026! 🔽 forms.gle/9nDiXBKvMGj6...

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2025 Annual Apache CouchDB User Survey

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 05/12/2025

The Neighbourhoodie team could be gracing your tv screen this weekend! Turn on: 📺 RTL7 on Sunday at 12:00 CET and 📺 @rtlz.bsky.social on Monday at 16:30 CET to catch us on Europe Connected, the program for business innovators. Check out this snippet of what’s in store: youtu.be/V80Xa64fTSE

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Neighbourhoodie in Berlin — Europe Connected

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 02/12/2025

There’s more than one way to automate #OfflineFirst database conflicts @couchdb.bsky.social makes it easy and notoriously reliable by choosing a deterministic winner and storing conflicts The best part? 🖼️ You can manage conflicts in CouchDB’s built-in UI! neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/10...

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Neighbourhoodie - Conflict Resolution in CouchDB with Fauxton

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 12/11/2025

@couchdb.bsky.social 3.5.1 is out! 🎉 There’s a lot in this maintenance release: 🚮 Improved purges 🧵UUID v7 _id generation 🔌 Enhanced bulk endpoints ➕ more! Catch all the release notes: blog.couchdb.org/2025/11/11/3... Plus tips on switching to QuickJS: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2024/09...

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Neighbourhoodie - CouchDB 3.4.1 New Feature QuickJS

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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@couchdb @couchdb.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

New version! CouchDB 3.5.1 is now available. It is a maintenance release with a lot of bug fixes, but it also includes a number of substantial performance improvements: blog.couchdb.org/2025/11/11/3...

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3.5.1

Dear community, Apache CouchDB® 3.5.1 has been released and is available for download. CouchDB 3.5.1 is a maintenance release, and was originally published on 2025-11-11. Pre-built packages for Win…

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Jan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es · 05/11/2025

Hey #Øredev my friend Alex is talking about The UI/UX Benefits and Trade-Offs of Local-First Apps today at 13:55 in room Curie. Alex helped coin the term Offline-First and has been designing & building offline web and native apps since 2013, you’ll learn a lot! oredev.org/line-up/91fe...

The UI/UX Benefits and Trade-Offs of Local-First Apps

A realist, zero-marketing overview of what building UIs for Local-First apps is actually like. Local- and Offline-First apps prioritise using on-device data, which can be crucial in health care, field work and disaster relief use-cases, or if you just want to ship a really fast user experience. The concepts are compelling and capable, but the reality of building with them can often be more complex than anticipated.

On the one hand, you get delightful performance and resilience wins as well as network independence. On the other you have the unfamiliar mental models for sync, conflicts, out-of-order updates, as well as other limitations to contend with. We look at how to pick the correct data sync primitives to design UIs for this powerful paradigm.

My team and I have been building offline-capable apps since 2013, and I’ll share my experiences from a wide variety of projects.

This talk will help you pick your battles and win them.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 04/11/2025

Our team is very proud to be contributing to the #Gnome platform thanks to support from @sovereign.tech: blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/10... Thanks to the Gnome team for a great collab 🙌 We finished our work on Blueprint: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/bluepr... Excited to share what we do next

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GNOME Foundation Update, 2025-10-03

It’s a wet and windy October afternoon here in the UK, and it’s time for another GNOME Foundation update. As ever, there is plenty going on behind the scenes which hasn’t made it into this post, such ...

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 28/10/2025

#Sharding is (another) thing that makes @couchdb.bsky.social such a scalable distributed database 📐 Few DBs make it automatic & transparent as CouchDB. We cover: - what shards are - how #CouchDB uses them - performance gains and trade-offs in our new post: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/10...

In this diagram of a database sharded using consistent hashing, the database is represented by a large rectangle. It contains small squares representing individual documents from A to G with an ellipses indicating continuation. Below this are 4 smaller rectangles, representing a q value of 4. Each smaller rectangle contains two documents, and the row is not alphabetical.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 21/10/2025

“All software benchmarks and claims of performance are *carefully crafted lies* and this write-up is *no different*.” This year we got to help a customer make huge gains 📈 Trying to #benchmark your own #Erlang or @couchdb.bsky.social project? Give it a read: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03...

A graph that maps number of requests against time in seconds shows a staggering climb that peaks at 63.21K requests per second, before winding back down to a low baseline.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 14/10/2025

Congratulations @couchdb.bsky.social 🥳 🎉 Apache CouchDB ’s application to @sovereign.tech’s Tech Resilience program was successful! We’ll share details of CouchDB’s enhanced durability once improvements are shipped. You can do the same for your #FOSS project: www.sovereign.tech/programs/bug...

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Sovereign Tech Resilience | Sovereign Tech Agency

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 07/10/2025

What if your database just… worked? 🤔 User data isn’t lost… It works on the web… It has built-in sync, for #offline and #local apps from day 1… And it’s got a proven track-record… Some of you know it already exists — it’s @couchdb.bsky.social ! ✨ Take a look: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/08...

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Neighbourhoodie - What is CouchDB? #1: Introduction

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 30/09/2025

📣 Here’s one for FOSS maintainers based in the EU 🌍 @sovereign.tech is currently accepting proposals from communities that want to enhance their resilience with: 🧱 contributions 🐛 bug bounties 🔍 code audits Requirements & application: www.sovereign.tech/programs/bug... Good luck, everyone!

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Sovereign Tech Resilience | Sovereign Tech Agency

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 09/09/2025

This is the most fun you’ll have choosing your next #LocalFirst #OfflineFirst stack: www.localfirst.fm/landscape PouchDB and @couchdb.bsky.social are there too, with filters to help you maximise compatibility for your next use case Thanks to @localfirst.fm ‬for putting it together ✨

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Local-First Landscape

Navigate the local-first landscape and build something great!

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 02/09/2025

Our own @janl.bsky.narrativ.es presented “How to Sync Anything” at the latest #LocalFirst Meetup. Learn approaches to replication, plus how @couchdb.bsky.social handles it. The full recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3983... And the article it’s based on: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/04...

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Lofi/29 (Local-First) Meetup -- Tuesday August 26, 2025 at 8AM PST

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Jan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es · 26/08/2025

Ich habe im @workingdraft.de Podcast von Local-First erzählt. Hat nur zwei Stunden gedauert und wir hätten noch Themen für mindestens weitere sechs 😅 Es hat sehr viel Soaß gemacht, ich hoffe dass das rüber kommt 🙏 Wenn ihr noch Fragen habt: AMA! #LocalFirst #OfflineFirst

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 19/08/2025

It’s easier than ever to share your @couchdb.bsky.social story! We learned in the last CouchDB survey that user stories are your favourite to read. There’s now a form to make submissions snappier. Be the next storyteller 🧙 & share with fellow devs how you use CouchDB: forms.gle/oysjbJkQsq6E...

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Submit a User Story to the Apache CouchDB Blog

Hello! This form was put together to make it easier for you to share how you use CouchDB with fellow developers. Your story can help people understand what CouchDB is capable of, discover more tooling...

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 12/08/2025

Apache Log4j has been the Java Logging library of choice for 20+ years! 🏆 Last year, we got to contribute to @logging.apache.org thanks to support from @sovereign.tech. Find out what maintainers will appreciate most about what we got up to: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/08...

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Neighbourhoodie - NH:STA S01E05 Log4j

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 05/08/2025

Initial sync in #OfflineFirst and #LocalFirst can be slow for users. We wrote up some ways @couchdb.bsky.social and #PouchDB do "Partial Data Fetching on Initial Load," for example by switching to a remote DB. Get more strategy and implementation details on our blog: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/

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Neighbourhoodie - Partial Data Fetching on Initial Load with PouchDB and CouchDB

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 29/07/2025

We got to work with the #systemd team to strengthen Linux 💪 DNS lookups on Linux need to be speedy and secure. Our team recently helped: 🔧 extend test coverage 🔧 cover edge cases 🔧 fix some parser bugs Discover what we did and get a look at the tests we added:

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Neighbourhoodie - NH:STF S01E05 systemd

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 23/07/2025

🎥 > 📑? You love our Our CouchDB, PouchDB + Offline-First blog articles, so we want to start sharing them in video form. You can already see: 📼 PouchDB Beginner Tutorial (www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Q7...) 📼 TypeScript + PouchDB Setup (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znqv...) Don’t forget to subscribe!

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Getting started with PouchDB: basics, replication, offline data, conflicts and queries

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 17/07/2025

We’re curating a monthly CouchDB Digest again! 🗞️ If you missed having a regular roundup of writing about @couchdb.bsky.social from all the sources we trust, catch it on the CouchDB Blog: blog.couchdb.org/2025/07/08/c... Or on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pulse/couchd...

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CouchDB Digest — June 2025

So much is happening around CouchDB these days, it’s about time we restarted a monthly roundup of CouchDB articles and videos from our favourite sources. If there’s anything you think should be inc…

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 08/07/2025

@couchdb.bsky.social 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: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/06...

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Neighbourhoodie - Using Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) in CouchDB

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 01/07/2025

All recordings from the 2025 edition of Local-First Conf are online! Huge thanks to the conference team for an inspiring time, and for documenting it 🙌 we cant wait for the next. If we missed you on the day, we’re grateful to share @janl.bsky.narrativ.es ’s talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x0k...

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Jan Lehnardt - 15 years of Local First: a best-of report from the field

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 24/06/2025

CouchDB users are not switching databases any time soon. We found out in the Annual Apache @couchdb.bsky.social ky.social User Survey. Find out from CouchDB users what makes it so unique: blog.couchdb.org/2025/06/18/2... And catch the highlights on our blog: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/06...

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2024 Apache CouchDB User Survey: Results

Results for the 2024 Annual Apache User Survey are out! Find out what people love and requested.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 17/06/2025

Using #Nouveau for full-text search in @couchdb.bsky.social yet? It’s the much faster way to do: 🔍fuzzy search 🔍and facet queries 🔍with counts and ranges Take a look at our demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2IX...

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Intro to CouchDB’s Nouveau: Full-text Search in CouchDB

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