 Welcome to this preview of CouchBase Connect Online 2021. My name is Dave Vellante with theCUBE and we're here with CouchBase CEO Matt Kane. Matt, good to see you again. Welcome. Thanks Dave, great to be here. We are super excited at theCUBE to partner with CouchBase this year to share the news, the analysis from Connect Online 21. What can attendees expect from the event this year? What's the theme? What can people really take away? Dave, we're fired up. Port of Conduct is no different. Our theme this year is modernized now. And it's something that we're hearing from our customers across the world as they think about leveraging technology to get closer to their customers. And at the top of every one of their strategic agendas is figuring out how to build the best applications to service our needs as in our personal lives and in our business lives. And we're really focused on talking about the technology that we uniquely architected to enable this that spans aspects of relational database technology and new capabilities leveraging those SQL technology, putting that into an integrated platform and really supporting customers. And we love talking about what we built, Dave, but we love even more when our customers share what they've been doing with our platform. Customers like Pepsi and Amadeus and American Greetings, you're going to hear them and their development teams talk about how they've leveraged couch space to solve some of their most fundamental application challenges and how that's really opening up new businesses for them in their end markets. Let's talk a little bit more, Matt, about that theme modernized now. I mean, the trends that we're seeing in the marketplace, they were in motion before the pandemic, but digitization and modernization has really become a high priority. Talk about why in your view now is the time to modernize and what's the mandate for enterprises? Well, look, I think digital transformation has been a focus point for some time and I think that's going to continue as we go forward. But I think as enterprise think about the challenges they have in front of them to successfully transform digitally, they may be thinking about the problem a little bit differently in light of current circumstances. And what we're seeing is enterprises have the desire to innovate, but they may not always have the resources or the capabilities to do it at the pace they want to. And so how do they approach this challenge? First and foremost, they need a platform that can help bridge the legacy world and the new one, that they can safely evolve applications and modernize workloads that were dependent on relational databases while putting them into new platforms. At the same time, they need people to do this work. So if I'm an enterprise, I'm almost an insatiable demand to build new applications, but I don't necessarily have all the people and teams and capabilities and skill sets needed to support that. So as a technology company, we've got to think through, how do we help provide the tools that will open up more people's ability to contribute to that digital transformation, leveraging things like SQL as the de facto language in the database technology, allowing enterprises to repurpose workforces, free up investment dollars, free up people to really focus on the next generation applications that are going to change their businesses. And so I think the current economic conditions haven't changed the fact that digital transformation is at the top of the priority list. If anything, it's reinforced the urgency with which enterprises need to go after this, but also the way that they need to do it. But I can't just continue to throw niche technologies and problems. I've really got to think about what kind of platforms can I identify in the future? And at CouchBase as the modern database for enterprise applications, this is what we're going to spend time talking about and helping customers understand the value that we can unlock for them as they invest in the CouchBase platform. Super relevant. Now, since we last talked, Matt, you made some big moves, not the least of which is you're now a public company. We've been following that. But what's changed? What's new product-wise? And maybe one of the fundamentals of the market that your customers and your culture are driving. Yeah, Dave, well, let's talk about first what's not changed. We continue to be long-term oriented at CouchBase. We believe we're in truly what we call a generational market transition and the challenges in front of enterprises that are unparalleled. So, too, are the opportunities for enterprises that get this right. They will innovate and thrive in their respective markets. And so as a company, we pride ourselves at being maniacally focused at solving unmet underserved needs in the world of databases and really thinking through what technological challenges do we need to innovate on so our customers can take that technology and be successful. That hasn't changed, that won't change. We continue to be insanely customer-focused and really studying those problems and making sure that we're adding value in everything we do. From a product perspective, services, how we show up to help our customers, and that's really important. Certainly, as you said, it's a big milestone for the company to step into the public market. We're very proud of what we've accomplished over our first decade or so of existence. But we truly believe that we've been built for this moment and that market transition that I've referred to, that movement into the public markets allows us to talk more broadly about all that we've built and how customers are taking advantage of our technology. Case in point is probably the biggest release in company history, Couchface Server 7.0. So while we were busy taking a step into the public market, we also continue to innovate, as I said, and are very pleased to be in market with Couchface 7.0, which fundamentally bridges for enterprise customers to move from relational to modern databases and do that in a single integrated platform. And we're going to talk about that at Connect in more detail and how application developers can re-platform applications in a much more seamless way and then start to innovate in a way that they never have. So a ton of work underway. We've got some really exciting announcements, which I think we'll talk about here in a second or at least plant the seeds on those. But we're going to be really focused on the innovation that we've delivered up to this point because it's so fundamentally valuable to the enterprise customers we serve and could be more excited to share the benefits of that technology and what we're going to help customers do as we go forward. Well, we see a lot of companies and as we evaluated, you've hit critical mass in terms of how we think about it, successful IPO, you're surpassed a hundred million dollars in revenue, 500 plus customers, talk about the opportunity for Couchface to continue to grow. What's in store? What's the focus? Well, as I mentioned, we're going to continue to innovate. And so ahead of the conference, we're going to talk about some really important upcoming innovations. I'm not going to steal too much of the thunder from the show, people are really pumped and putting that material together. We've focused a lot on ensuring that we have the best database in the market, particularly for enterprise applications and really thinking through the architecture that will support applications today and going forward. And we've been really successful with that, Dave. As you mentioned, we have not only a lot of enterprise customers and we're really proud of those customers who support. What we're even more proud of though, Dave, is the mission critical nature and enterprise nature of those applications. These companies are truly running their businesses on applications powered by Couchface. As we go forward, we have almost unlimited potential for new opportunity in acquiring new customers. And we're really focused on that and evangelizing what we've done successfully with our existing base to new customers and their respective markets. And we continue to acquire those and will successfully expand because of the power of our platform. We've done a lot to invest in our partner ecosystem. So we have many ISVs that are taking our solutions to market. We have GSIs that are building practices around Couchface because our database provides capabilities that others don't and they can run their businesses and help their end customers transform with the power of Couchface. But Dave, what we like to talk about in Couchface is we have opportunities to really help customers once we get in and we think about many vectors of growth. So when we support a customer with an application, what often happens is that application grows because the enterprise is successful and they put more users in or they deploy it into new geographies. At the same time, they realize, wow, if I can support highly interactive, highly scalable distributive applications in this particular area, I have hundreds, if not thousands of those in my enterprise so I can use the platform for that. Then one of the things that we focus on is giving more and more capabilities to developers to enhance the performance and the personalization of their applications. I've mentioned we support the SQL query language. We've got operational analytics. We've embedded full text search. We have things like eventing. All of these are elegantly architected features that allow developers to build great applications. And the more that we're successful in helping developers do that, the more the company's going to grow. And then on top of all that, couldn't be more excited about cloud. And Couchface cloud from the very outset has been a cloud native platform. Our enterprises are running this in multi and hybrid cloud deployments, but what we really have an opportunity to do is help them and run more of the service of that cloud solution. And we're going to be talking a lot more, come to the show about some specifics around that offering and couldn't be more excited about augmenting our portfolio with some new capabilities there. Lot to learn at this event. Tons of meat on the bone. Okay, Matt, we're going to leave it right there. Couchface Connect Online is a two day event, October 20th through the 21st. More than 80 sessions geared for architects, developers, business users, open source advocates. Now the easiest way to register, all you got to do is go to couchface.com. You'll see the link there. There's a hackathon with prizes. So start developing and win. And while you're there, check out the free downloads with a number of different deployment options. Couchface Connect 2021, modernize now. We'll see you there.