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by undoware 4625 days ago
I'm surprised more people haven't heard of PouchDB, so good on Cloudant for donating buzz to an excellent FOSS project. And thanks again, Dale Harvey, for being a fscking genius. :)

My boss tells me I'll be making a whole private document management & CRM around it and CouchDB, and that's my fault for showing them to him.

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I'm just getting interested in CouchDB and PouchDB. I almost jumped out of my chair when I found PouchDB earlier this week. So brilliant!

Will you be sharing your development experiences somewhere? It seems there is less info out there compared to, say, Mongo.

As much as possible, yes -- my employer has only recently gotten into sponsoring FOSS, so I have to do a lot of comforting around the, "but what if someone else takes this and copies us" question. Which is fair: They (still) don't teach FOSS community balancing in MBA school. In fact, I just made the term 'community balancing' up, but only because we both know there should be one, and isn't.
So many kudos to Dale Harvey for driving this incredible project. CouchDB's concept of replication is itself mind-blowing, but PouchDB bringing that to the {app,client}-layer opens up untold possibilities for robust, distributed systems.