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CouchDB has a monthly digest! 🗞️ You can keep up with news from the @couchdb ecosystem, plus the odd bit of PouchDB news, the first week of every month on the CouchDB Blog. Take a look at the most recent edition. Did we miss anything? 💬 Let us know!

CouchDB Digest — April 2026

This month there are quite a few CouchDB video tutorials, plus benchmarks and a bunch of tools to aid your work with CouchDB.

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We offer CouchDB training to get your team up-to-date with CouchDB and your internal standards sharp (and consistent!) 🎓 We recently shared the full syllabus on our website. We’re happy we got around to this 🙌 Reach out if you’re curious to learn how we can help your team or project

Neighbourhoodie - CouchDB Training

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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We gave our most popular product a fresh coat of paint! 🎨 Our CouchDB Architecture Review gives you a prioritised run-down of issues and opportunities in your CouchDB — including resource-saving suggestions. Our website now better reflects what you can look forward to, check it out:

Neighbourhoodie - Architecture Review

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 4mo ago

We’re hosting a @couchdb.bsky.social & @pouchdb.bsky.social Hackday on July 11 as a warm-up for the @localfirstconf.com 🎉 Join us in our Berlin office to discover these sync pioneers, help others, or get an intro to contributing. RSVP to meet others ahead of the conference kick-off on the 12th:

Neighbourhoodie - Announcing CouchDB & PouchDB Hackday Berlin 2026

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Another big thank you to the @foss-backstage.de team for a great conference! In mid-March we met up with builders and users of our favourite ecosystems, plus the advocates behind them. Recordings are now up! 📼 Catch @janl.bsky.narrativ.es presenting on the security track:

Jan Lehnardt – 2.5 Years of STA Bug Resilience: how we helped a lot of FOSS #FOSSBack

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 4mo ago

Watching that “update contributor docs” ticket slide down the backlog? 👀 Thanks to support from the @sovereign.tech we got to help Reproducible Builds catch a break Our thanks to the team for the welcome and trust to make their project more resilient.

Neighbourhoodie - NH:STA S01E06 Reproducible Builds

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Neighbourhoodie @bsky.neighbourhood.ie · 4mo ago

Special episode with #PHP just landed! With @sovereign.tech support, we got to work with the PHP project twice 👯 We’re very grateful to have helped out one of the web’s most important (and best documented!) open source projects. Find out how we helped with deployments and monitoring:

Neighbourhoodie - NH:STA Special Episode with PHP

Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.

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Jan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es · 5mo ago

🗓️ Mark your calendars — @localfirstconf.com is happening this July 12-14 in Berlin We’ll definitely be there! If sync, P2P, conflicts and data ownership pique your interest, you’ll want to be there too. We may even have a CouchDB & PouchDB surprise. Check out the call for papers:

Local-First Conf 2026

Schedule, talks and talk submissions for Local-First Conf 2026

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Find me at #FOSSBack o/ Talk to me about: - whatever fun thing that occupies you right now - the sovereign tech agency and contributing to free and open source software - offline capable apps My talk is today at 12:10 :)

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We’re nearly up next at @foss-backstage.de 🎤 If you get curious hearing #FOSS discussed in German Parliament, this talk is for you! @janl.bsky.narrativ.es will pull back the curtain on 2.5 years working as the official implementation partner of @sovereign.tech See you at 12:10 in the Auditorium

2.5 Years of STA Bug Resilience: how we helped a lot of FOSS

Between major updates for Log4J, substantially increasing test coverage for SystemD, updating hundreds of CVE reports at NIST for Yocto and providing a new infrastructure-as-code solution for PHP, wor...

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Only the weekend stands between us and @foss-backstage.de! Neighbourhoodie’s @janl.bsky.narrativ.es will present work we’ve done with @sovereign.tech support over 2.5 years. Catch him on Monday at 12:10 in the auditorium, “security” topic track. 🎟️ Tickets (incl. remote) are still available

2.5 Years of STA Bug Resilience: how we helped a lot of FOSS

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Offline with no CRDTs?! At #FOSDEM earlier this month our colleague Alex Feyerke got to introduce local-first pioneers @couchdb.bsky.social and @pouchdb.bsky.social in the @localfirst.bsky.social devroom, a space dedicated to all things sync, P2P and conflict resolution. 📼 Check out Alex’ talk

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FOSS Backstage@foss-backstage.de · 5mo ago

We’re one week out and getting very excited ✨ Tickets are still available, including a remote option if you can’t be in Berlin in person. We hope to see you there!

Work on FOSS projects for the Sovereign Tech Agency has included significant Log4J updates, enhanced SystemD test coverage, updated Yocto CVE reports, and a new PHP infrastructure-as-code solution. Join Jan Lehnardt for a recap of the past two and a half years. Read more: 26.foss-backstage.de...

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 📣

2025—2026 Annual Apache CouchDB User Survey

This questionnaire is our annual check-in with the greater CouchDB community to gauge how you’re using and/or feeling about CouchDB. It helps gather feedback on specific areas (features, versions, doc...

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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 🔒

Jan Lehnardt from the Neighbourhoodie team will present “2.5 Years of STA Bug Resilience: how we helped a lot of FOSS” at FOSS Backstage this year. If you’re curious to learn more about what the Sovereign Tech Agency’s support has meant for the open source ecosystem, and what we’ve learned as the official implementation partner on the way, grab your ticket and join us there.

In this photograph, Jan Lehnardt smiles at us from a beach with lush greenery in the background. Jan has been contributing to open source projects for over 15 years and has put that breadth of knowledge to good use supporting projects including PHP, systemd, Log4j and more through the Tech Resilience program.

FOSS Backstage takes place in Berlin from 16-17 March 2026. You can join in person or online, so don’t miss out — grab your ticket and we’ll catch you there.

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! 🌐

2025 Annual Apache CouchDB User Survey

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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

Meet Alex Feyerke, presenting today (1.2.2026) in the Local-First devroom. After detours through graphic design, studying media and literature at university and spending far too much time freelancing for ad agencies, Alex eventually co-founded Neighbourhoodie Software in Berlin, where he can finally do something useful: work on projects that genuinely improve people’s lives. He’s been designing and building offline-first apps since 2013, when he helped coin the term Offline First.

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/

Open Local First

For the first time this year, the FOSDEM conference will host a devroom for Local First, CRDTs and sync protocols and sync engines. FOSDEM is the biggest Free and Open Source conference in Europe. Thi...

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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...

2025 Annual Apache CouchDB User Survey

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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

Neighbourhoodie in Berlin — Europe Connected

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