Columbia University's Developer Lounge: Guest Speaker Series
Special Guest - Chris Anderson: CouchDB Tech Talk (potentially drupal related http://www.johnmwillis.com/zenoss/drupal-dries-and-clouds/)
Date: Wednesday, September 17
Time: 6pm
Location: Columbia University, 523 Butler Library
Maps & Directions: http://tinyurl.com/52vaop
http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/butler_library.html
Take the 1 train to 116th street (NOT the 2/3 express trains).
Please RSVP to jonah at ccnmtl dot columbia dot edu. If you don't have a Columbia ID you must RSVP by Tuesday September 16th.
Chris Anderson is co-founder of Grabb.it, a Portland-based web startup
which provides Web analytics for the music industry. He specializes in
CouchDB based web search and large scale CouchDB deployment, both for
Grabb.it and as an independent consultant.
Chris will give an introduction to CouchDB, demonstrate some example
Javascript code for building a blog (and show how replication works by
letting everyone on the local net copy the application to their local
install of CouchDB), and give a quick tour of the internals for anyone
interested in contributing to the project.
Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Among other features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a table-oriented view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition language.
CouchDB is written in Erlang, but can be easily accessed from any environment that provides means to make HTTP requests. There are a multitude of third-party client libraries that make this even easier for a variety of programming languages and environments.
For more information about CouchDB see http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb/
If you have any questions, please contact Terry Catapano thc4 at columbia dot edu
or Jonah Bossewitch - jonah at ccnmtl dot columbia dot edu