Papers and Presentations

Papers

Migrating to CouchDB – A paper consisting of my series of blog posts regarding the migration of the Interactive Mediums (now Signal) application to CouchDB. The paper was compiled and released by Couchio.

Real World CouchDB View more presentations from John Wood A talk that focuses on the key features of CouchDB, and how they are being used in the real world. Presented at WindyCityDB, 2011. A video of this talk can be found here.
Tenacity View more presentations from John Wood An introduction to Tenacity. Presented at the ChicagoDB Users Group on June 20th, 2011, and at WindyCityDB 2011.
Introduction to CouchDB View more presentations from John Wood. An introduction to CouchDB. This talk focuses on CouchDB’s strengths, and what sets it apart from the other NoSQL databases. Presented at the ChicagoDB Users Group on August 16th, 2010.
Polyglot Persistence – Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together View more presentations from John Wood. A talk that focuses on the strength and weaknesses of both relational and NoSQL databases, the benefits and challenges of polyglot persistence, and examples of polyglot persistence in the wild. Presented at WindyCityDB, 2010. A video of this talk can be found here.