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Tales from the tap room — craft beer stories, homebrew disasters, and brewery adventures.

I Put My Resume in a Couchbase Bucket and Got Hired by the Cluster

April 7, 2026
When your job application has better replication than your LinkedIn profile.

My Cat Deleted the Production Database and Got Promoted

April 7, 2026
She walked across my keyboard. What happened next will horrify your DBA.

My Stand-Up Desk Runs Couchbase and I Am Not Okay

April 6, 2026
When your IoT obsession goes too far and your furniture starts indexing.

My Couchbase Cluster Has Better Uptime Than My Relationships

April 6, 2026
99.999% availability. If only dating apps had the same SLA.

The Couchbase Bucket List: 7 Queries to Run Before You Die

April 5, 2026
A bucket list for people who store data in buckets.

I Asked ChatGPT to Brew a Beer and It Said UPSERT INTO My Glass

April 5, 2026
When AI meets craft beer, nobody wins. Especially not the beer.

If Programming Languages Were Beers

April 4, 2026
A totally objective and not at all controversial comparison.

Dear Diary: My First Day as a Couchbase Document

April 4, 2026
The existential musings of a JSON object in a NoSQL world.

The Five Stages of Debugging a Couchbase N1QL Query

April 3, 2026
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and SELECT RAW.

My Dog Rates Local Breweries (He Has Strong Opinions)

April 3, 2026
Bark Brewster reviews the city's finest establishments.

An ORM Walked Into a Bar and Ordered a JOIN

April 3, 2026
What happens when Django, SQLAlchemy, and a Couchbase document model meet for drinks.

A Field Guide to People Who Say 'Actually' at Breweries

April 1, 2026
Identifying and surviving the most dangerous predator in craft beer.

The Homebrew That Gained Sentience

March 30, 2026
When your garage experiment starts making demands.

I Tried Every IPA So You Don't Have To (You're Welcome)

March 28, 2026
47 IPAs. 3 days. 1 very confused liver.

10 Things I Learned Building a Django Backend for a NoSQL Database

March 27, 2026
Spoiler: Django really, really wants you to use PostgreSQL.

How Couchbase Lite Saved My Marriage (A Mobile Sync Story)

March 25, 2026
Offline-first isn't just a tech buzzword — it's relationship therapy.

The Definitive Ranking of Beers by ABV (A Scientific Study)

March 22, 2026
We drank them all. For science.

Why We Replaced PostgreSQL with Couchbase (And Lived to Tell the Tale)

March 20, 2026
A tale of migration, courage, and very large JSON documents.