Blog
Tales from the tap room — craft beer stories, homebrew disasters, and brewery adventures.
Apple Said No, So We Said Yes (To Anonymous Browsing)
Or: how a one-paragraph review note convinced us our login flow was a personality flaw.
We Asked Our Database for Relationship Advice
Couchbase doesn't do JOINs the way you'd expect, and frankly, neither should you.
Our Intern Discovered Warm Beer And We're Pretending It's a Feature
An accidental thermostat incident reveals what may be the next great frontier in artisanal brewing.
I Put My Resume in a Couchbase Bucket and Got Hired by the Cluster
When your job application has better replication than your LinkedIn profile.
My Cat Deleted the Production Database and Got Promoted
She walked across my keyboard. What happened next will horrify your DBA.
My Stand-Up Desk Runs Couchbase and I Am Not Okay
When your IoT obsession goes too far and your furniture starts indexing.
My Couchbase Cluster Has Better Uptime Than My Relationships
99.999% availability. If only dating apps had the same SLA.
I Asked ChatGPT to Brew a Beer and It Said UPSERT INTO My Glass
When AI meets craft beer, nobody wins. Especially not the beer.
The Couchbase Bucket List: 7 Queries to Run Before You Die
A bucket list for people who store data in buckets.
If Programming Languages Were Beers
A totally objective and not at all controversial comparison.
Dear Diary: My First Day as a Couchbase Document
The existential musings of a JSON object in a NoSQL world.
The Five Stages of Debugging a Couchbase N1QL Query
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and SELECT RAW.
An ORM Walked Into a Bar and Ordered a JOIN
What happens when Django, SQLAlchemy, and a Couchbase document model meet for drinks.
My Dog Rates Local Breweries (He Has Strong Opinions)
Bark Brewster reviews the city's finest establishments.
A Field Guide to People Who Say 'Actually' at Breweries
Identifying and surviving the most dangerous predator in craft beer.
The Homebrew That Gained Sentience
When your garage experiment starts making demands.
I Tried Every IPA So You Don't Have To (You're Welcome)
47 IPAs. 3 days. 1 very confused liver.
10 Things I Learned Building a Django Backend for a NoSQL Database
Spoiler: Django really, really wants you to use PostgreSQL.
How Couchbase Lite Saved My Marriage (A Mobile Sync Story)
Offline-first isn't just a tech buzzword — it's relationship therapy.
The Definitive Ranking of Beers by ABV (A Scientific Study)
We drank them all. For science.
Why We Replaced PostgreSQL with Couchbase (And Lived to Tell the Tale)
A tale of migration, courage, and very large JSON documents.