The concept of CouchDB seemed strange to me at first sight (and part of me still thinks it is). Having an Erlang implemented document oriented database which uses a map-reduce concept to get the data. There are plenty of ways to use CouchDB (which offers an http-, rest-oriented interface), libraries for almost every civilized programming language exist – but in my eyes the most beautiful thing about CouchDB is the possibility to write self-contained applications in JavaScript. Paired with CouchDBs brilliant replication features some very interesting ideas come to my mind – you will read about my learnings from Couchland here (btw I don’t like Borat).

And now I’m going to enjoy my brilliant breakfast.