Top all-time · #7275
neighbourhood.ie
Company blog · neighbourhood.ie/blogprogrammingweb
neighbourhood.ie is the company blog at neighbourhood.ie, writing about programming and web. Since 2019, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “How to Sync Anything”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for CouchDB and local-first software, and for explanations of how CouchDB handles durability and fsync. Commenters also mention the company's SQLite-based CouchDB add-on.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Neighbourhoodie Software is a software development company based in Berlin, Germany. We are experts in CouchDB, PouchDB, and Offline First.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Sync Anything4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-04-09
- CouchDB Prevents Data Corruption: Fsync2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-28
- Structured Query Server: SQL Queries for Apache CouchDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-11
What Hacker News says?
Hi Dale, I'm one of the local-first paper coauthors. I'm a fan of PouchDB (thanks for that) and the whole CouchDB lineage--the CouchDB book[1] was an early inspiration in my exploration of next-gen storage and collab models. I've been down the CouchDB/PouchDB path several times with several different engineering teams. Every time we were hopeful and every time we just couldn't get it to work. As one example, I worke…
Comment linking /couchdb-support/
on “Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud”Submitted Offline-First with CouchDB and PouchDB in 2025 as a story · 68 points
HN discussionNo offence taken, SQLite is great technology :) — My company makes a (commercial) CouchDB add-on based on SQLite to add SQL queries to CouchDB (link provided for informational purposes): https://neighbourhood.ie/products-and-services/structured-qu...
Comment linking /products-and-services/structured-query-server
on “CouchDB 3.4.1 Released”Submitted CouchDB Prevents Data Corruption: Fsync as a story · 26 points
HN discussionThanks Paul, I’ve updated the post to clarify: https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/02/26/how-couchdb-prevent...
Comment linking /blog/2025/02/26/how-couchdb-prevents-data-corruption-fsync
on “Fsync() after open() is an elaborate no-op”Submitted 10x CouchDB Performance Gains for a AAA Game Launch as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSo there's a bit of a misunderstanding here in the chain of blog posts that I can clear up. First, from this article: That’s the question I’ve been mulling over for days, because I don’t see how this action can make any particular guarantees about durability, at least not in any portable way. This part is super easy to clear up. CouchDB in no way relies on an fsync after open for any guarantee on durability. As show…
Comment linking /blog/2025/02/26/how-couchdb-prevents-data-corruption-fsync
on “Fsync() after open() is an elaborate no-op”Submitted How to Sync Anything as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Sync Anything as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Sync Anything as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Sync Anything as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sequoia-PGP in the Sovereign Tech Fund's Resilience Program as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Structured Query Server: SQL Queries for Apache CouchDB as a story · 1 points
HN discussion