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We build offline capable web applications with CouchDB and PouchDB.

Want tools to optimise your CouchDB? Need help with your Offline First app?

We can help: https://neighbourhood.ie
@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...
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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November 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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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...
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…
blog.couchdb.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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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...
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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
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 ...
blogs.gnome.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#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...
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
“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...
October 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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...
Sovereign Tech Resilience | Sovereign Tech Agency
www.sovereign.tech
October 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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...
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.
neighbourhood.ie
October 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
📣 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!
Sovereign Tech Resilience | Sovereign Tech Agency
www.sovereign.tech
September 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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 ✨
Local-First Landscape
Navigate the local-first landscape and build something great!
www.localfirst.fm
September 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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...
Lofi/29 (Local-First) Meetup -- Tuesday August 26, 2025 at 8AM PST
YouTube video by Local First (LoFi.so)
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September 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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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
August 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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...
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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August 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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...
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.
neighbourhood.ie
August 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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/
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.
neighbourhood.ie
August 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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:
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.
neighbourhood.ie
July 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🎥 > 📑?

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!
Getting started with PouchDB: basics, replication, offline data, conflicts and queries
YouTube video by Neighbourhoodie
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July 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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...
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…
blog.couchdb.org
July 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
@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...
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.
neighbourhood.ie
July 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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...
Jan Lehnardt - 15 years of Local First: a best-of report from the field
YouTube video by Local-First Conf
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July 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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...
2024 Apache CouchDB User Survey: Results
Results for the 2024 Annual Apache User Survey are out! Find out what people love and requested.
blog.couchdb.org
June 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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...
Intro to CouchDB’s Nouveau: Full-text Search in CouchDB
YouTube video by Neighbourhoodie
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June 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
📰 @couchdb.bsky.social 3.5.0 has dropped!
We’re most excited about...

✨ P-Reads ✨

A Parallel Read — or “pread” — skips a “seek” operation to read from a specific file position.

Find out what #performance gains your project will benefit from when you upgrade: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/07...
Neighbourhoodie - Understanding Parallel Preads in CouchDB
Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.
neighbourhood.ie
June 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Recap time!

Last week we attended @localfirstconf.com, hosted a packed workshop (thanks to all who joined!) and shared @couchdb.bsky.social stories on stage.

📖 Read the rundown: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/06...

📽️ Catch the workshop:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Q7...

Can’t wait for next year! ✨
Neighbourhoodie - Local-First Conf Recap
Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.
neighbourhood.ie
June 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
👀 Keen for @couchdb.bsky.social + PouchDB tips?
🧐 Got questions about libraries?
🔁 Curious how we sync with our favourite tech?

Join us for a Couch + Pouch workshop in Neukölln and ✨ build an offline app ✨ during Local First Conf.’s Community Day this Monday.

Register now to join: lu.ma/v8ggp0u9
Local-first Conf 2025 - Community Day · Luma
RSVP here to attend the pre-conference community day with workshops and unconference activities. More details to follow but RSVP to get your place and save the…
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May 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM