CouchDB: Relaxing Offline JavaScript

Google Tech Talk
September 24, 2009
slides: http://www.slideshare.net/jchrisa/couchdb-local-web-platform
Web Exponents: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=689D6EE903ED5CB6&search_query=web...

ABSTRACT

Presented by Chris Anderson.

CouchDB's web API and offline replication capabilities make it ideally suited to power a sea-change in the relationships between users and service providers. I'll give a 10,000 foot overview of CouchDB, as well as discuss the benefits and challenges of writing applications that can be replicated transparently from the cloud to local machines.

Chris Anderson is an Apache CouchDB committer and co-author of the forthcoming O'Reilly book "CouchDB: The Definitive Guide". He is a director of couch.io, offering commercial hosting, support, consulting, and custom development. He enjoys working on JavaScript CouchApps which can be peer-replicated just like any other data. Chris is obsessed with bending the physics of the web to give control back to users.

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Science & Technology

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• tech
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• javascript
• web
• programming

[generationalist]

"Latency sucks" Chris Anderson. I love the irony. It can be a tag line, a tee-shirt, a bumper sticker... We've come 180 degrees from the 1970's slogan speed kills.

[whitesandz]

The first half is kinda silly, with bad jokes. The second half is inspiring and makes me really excited about the technology. Worth watching.

[rockgitmo]

What a useless talk - sounds more like a sales guy rather than a computer scientist.

[actionowl]

4:18 "Reliability is our number one concern, we're not trying to build the Ferrari of databases... we're trying to build the Honda Accord of databases" Well put! :)

[TheXackr]

Holy Kow! The best freaking video I've watched on YouTube in a very long time. This guy rocks.