On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Vijay Raghunathan <[email protected]> wrote: > Meebo is definitely interested/willing to talk about how we're using > couchdb. We bounced around a couple ideas internally and came up with > 3 different topics that we thought were interesting. > > 1) Using couch in a clustered environment (Couchdb-lounge). Our > cluster has 11 boxes in it, with full redundancy. > > 2) We've been migrating all of our stats systems to be based on > couchdb. The actual visualization code is served using couchapp. > > 3) For one of our recent projects, we've been using couch as an > application store to keep separate parts of the application in sync. > Whenever something is modified, we simply update a document in couch. > Other pieces listen to _changes and update their state as necessary. > This is really nice for two main reasons. All of our code is already > asynchronous, so listening to _changes is pretty trivial to add > support to. Also, it means that at any piece can be restarted without > worrying about the state, since it's all stored in couch. It's made > for (what we think) is a very elegant architecture. > > Of course, we're also more than happy to talk about our experiences > with couch in production environments in general.
Vijay, This sounds like a good talk proposal. The best thing to do is to start sending it into the various CFP for conferences. I especially like the idea of hearing more about CouchDB-Lounge in production. Chris > > vijay > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Chris Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Another one: >> >> It'd be great to have a flood of talk proposals and case studies at OSCON: >> >> Call for participation is open for another week or so. >> http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2010 >> >> The conference is July 19-23rd in Portland Oregon. Especially stories >> of personal experience with CouchDB would be appreciated by this >> audience. >> >> Chris >> >> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 30 Dec 2009, at 18:25, Chris Anderson wrote: >>> >>>> CouchDB devs and users, >>>> >>>> It's almost conference season again, and there will be unprecedented >>>> demand for CouchDB speakers. I think it'd really help the project to >>>> have people talking about CouchDB at all the local conferences and >>>> user group meetups. >>>> >>>> If you've never talked at a conference before, it's really rewarding, >>>> and easy to do. If you're looking for inspiration, there are a lot of >>>> slide decks here: >>>> >>>> http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?q=couchdb >>> >>> We also have a wiki page listing talks, videos and slides, it'd be >>> great if we could maintain it. http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Presentations >>> >>> Chris, I know you don't like the wiki, but I don't like slideshare even >>> more. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Jan >>> -- >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Chris Anderson >> http://jchrisa.net >> http://couch.io >> > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
