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Neighbourhoodie
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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
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#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.
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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“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.
October 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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⏱️ Forget CouchTo5k, we can to ToCouchIn5Min!

Got a small project? Never tried CouchDB?

Get up and running in a couple of minutes — @couchdb.bsky.social Minihosting is here! And it’s completely open source.

Learn more on our blog: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03...
CouchDB Minihosting is here!
March 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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No, this graph wasn’t generated — this is an actual @couchdb.bsky.social customer’s performance on 60–70% CPU usage.

Want to learn about the issues we found and solved to get there + how to benchmark your own CouchDB?

Get all the details: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03...
A graph showing a staggering performance increase, peeking at 63.21k requests per second.
March 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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What did we get up to in 2024? 🔮

Before we head into the holidays, we’re taking a moment to reflect on the events and projects from the last 12 months that we’re particularly proud of 🧵

Thank you to everyone who was a part of our year. We can’t wait to see you in the next ✨ Happy holidays!
A holiday greeting card from the Neighbourhoodie team with colourful and friendly shapes.
December 20, 2024 at 9:48 AM