Don’t miss your chance to let us know how and why you use @couchdb.bsky.social — and what you’d like to see more and less of — in the latest user survey. We would love to hear from you and your colleagues, shares are welcome 📣

More reasons to join @foss-backstage.de, March 16-17, 2026 in Berlin 👇 @janl.bsky.narrativ.es will recap our contributions through the @sovereign.tech’s Tech Resiliency program: 26.foss-backstage.de/session/2-5-... Join us on 16.03.2026 to learn what really keeps FOSS projects strong and safe 🔒

Help shape the future of @couchdb.bsky.social! 📣 It’s time for the 2025 - 2026 Annual Apache CouchDB User Survey, where we learn what to build, write about and enhance. Boosts and shares appreciated — let’s reach as many users as we can! 🌐

We’re presenting in the #FOSDEM @localfirst.bsky.social devroom in a few hours ✨ 📍 K.3.201 at 16:20 CET Keep an eye out for Alex or @janl.bsky.narrativ.es to check you’re in the right place. All the details: fosdem.org/2026/schedul... Catch the live stream: live.fosdem.org/watch/k3201

It’s this weekend! 👏 This Sunday @janl.bsky.narrativ.es and Alex Feyerke will be at @fosdem.org in the @localfirst.bsky.social devroom Come meet Local First heroes @couchdb.bsky.social & @pouchdb.bsky.social, the sync engine where CRDTs are optional We also cover easy, open source self-hosting 🛎️

Join us and @localfirst.bsky.social at @fosdem.org, Jan 31 + Feb 1, 2026, in Brussels! We’re in the (first ever) Local First, sync engine and CRDT-focused devroom intro’ing pioneers @couchdb.bsky.social and @pouchdb.bsky.social Find out more: ℹ️ openlocalfirst.org 🏠 fosdem.org/2026/

2025 is winding down! 🎇 So much happened this year. Our team is very proud to look back on all the achievements, collaborations and projects that made their way onto our calendar. We have so many people to thank! And so many cool things to remember. Check out the thread for a peek 📜

The Annual Apache @couchdb.bsky.social User Survey 2025 is here! We want to hear from you 📣 Using ✨ 3.5.1 ✨ yet? Prefer another version? Want more of something? Wouldn’t miss it if something went away? Let us know until late Feb 2026! 🔽 forms.gle/9nDiXBKvMGj6...

The Neighbourhoodie team could be gracing your tv screen this weekend! Turn on: 📺 RTL7 on Sunday at 12:00 CET and 📺 @rtlz.bsky.social on Monday at 16:30 CET to catch us on Europe Connected, the program for business innovators. Check out this snippet of what’s in store: youtu.be/V80Xa64fTSE

There’s more than one way to automate #OfflineFirst database conflicts @couchdb.bsky.social makes it easy and notoriously reliable by choosing a deterministic winner and storing conflicts The best part? 🖼️ You can manage conflicts in CouchDB’s built-in UI! neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/10...

@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...

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...

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...

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

#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...

“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...

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...

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...

📣 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!

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 ✨

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...

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

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...

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...

Initial sync in #OfflineFirst and #LocalFirst can be slow for users. We wrote up some ways @couchdb.bsky.social#OfflineFirst#LocalFirstnd #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/

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:

🎥 > 📑? 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!

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.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...

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...

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...

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...

📰 @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...

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! ✨

👀 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

🔌 Got your ticket for @localfirstnews.bsky.social? We’re bringing PouchDB along — come say hi! Join our PouchDB workshop on the 26, register here: lu.ma/v8ggp0u9 Don’t miss @janl.bsky.narrativ.es ‬’s talk on May 28! Here’s what we’re looking forward to: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/05...

📡 Get the latest CouchDB knowledge exactly where you want to find it: our blog now has an RSS feed! Plus, we added tags to help you find your favourite reads. No paywall. No cookies. No ads. No AI. Just beautiful, hand-crafted technical writing. Browse tags + subscribe here: neighbourhood.ie/blog

“What even is CouchDB?” 😌 It’s the database that *expects* things to fail — and keeps working anyway. Take a look to discover why @couchdb.bsky.social’s offline-first design, seamless sync and JSON/HTTP API help ensure it never panics: dev.to/neighbourhoo... 💬 What’s your favourite feature?

Want to ✨ #sync anything ✨? There are a multitude of reasons to keep data synced. Sometimes by design, and sometimes out of (temporary) necessity. Learn where ad-hoc fixes fall short and how to get it right: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/04...

Want to try CouchDB’s 🆕 Minihosting + see the state of Offline-First in 2025 at the same time? We’ve put together a demo app tutorial to do just that! See how @svelte.dev 5, @vite.dev , Pico.css, @couchdb.bsky.social and PouchDB come together to make Pouchnotes: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03...

Archaeologists! Field researchers! 📣 How do you handle data collection when working remotely with no internet? The @dai-weltweit.bsky.social’s iDAI.field app is #Offline-First and ensures zero data loss + seamless sync: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03... Need a similar solution? We’d love to help!

Want to boost @couchdb.bsky.social query performance? Cut out inefficiencies with partitions 🔪 Instead of querying them all, partition your data so you just need to query *one* shard. Learn how it works and when to use it on our blog: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/03...

⏱️ 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...

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...

Got a new project in the works? Need a good #database? 🗄️ @couchdb.bsky.social gets going in minutes without a schema, backend code, or dependencies. And it keeps your data safe along the way, come crash or outage. Learn why it’s been a first choice for 18+ years: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/02...

When starting with a new @couchdb.bsky.social #DatabaseDesign, you’ll need to consider document size and attachment size. Get them wrong… and, you’ll feel it later! 📏 💾 Check out our #DataModelling blog tips and learn why we recommend keeping it small: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/02...

🧹 Compaction: the important @couchdb.bsky.social feature keeping your data tidy It’s tempting to think CouchDB keeps all document versions forever, but that’s not quite how it works. Our new post looks at compaction + why it’s never a good idea to turn it off. 🔗 neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/01...

You may not think about disk-corruption too often… but CouchDB does! Our latest article covers @couchdb.bsky.social’s #checksums: a built-in feature protecting your data from the dreaded impact of disk corruption. Learn why CouchDB is your data’s safe place: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/01...

✨Part 4/4 of your most-loved series is out ✨ Come build a real-time multi-user Kanban board with @couchdb.bsky.social and @svelte.dev! It’s no ordinary tutorial 😉 We’ve covered requirements and conflicts in 1 - 3. Part 4 touches UI locking, trade-offs and more: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/01...

If you didn’t get everything you wished for this festive season, we have something for you! 🎁 We still have a few *FREE* licenses available for Structured Query Server, our SQL query engine for #CouchDB. Find out how to claim your license + make your team’s month: neighbourhood.ie/blog/2024/11...