Last week I hosted Chris Anderson for a Google tech talk on CouchDB as part of the Web
Exponents speaker series. Chris is an Apache
CouchDB committer. He is co-author of the forthcoming O'Reilly book
CouchDB: The
Definitive Guide and a director of couch.io.
Making web applications work
offline is a hot topic. Google Gears blazed
the trail, and Web
Storage is part of HTML5. CouchDB is a NoSQL alternative that makes it easy for web
apps to run offline. This is important because even as bandwidth grows, latency is still an
issue for a significant number of users, and outages or zero-bars can and do happen. CouchDB
makes this a non-issue by running your application close to the user, on their device or in
their browser. Chris calls this "ground computing" - a refreshing counterpoint to the oft-used
"cloud computing" label. Hear more from Chris in his video and slides.
Check out
other videos in the Web
Exponents speaker series:
