Jan Lehnardt
Jan Lehnardt is an Open Source software consultant spcialising in
internet technologies. Jan is the co-founder of Freisatz, a company
bringing typographic bliss to everyone and a contributor to the CouchDB
project. He has years of experience with building small and big-scale
database backed applications and has a keen eye for user experience and
typography.
Jan Lehnardt is Giving the Following Talks
Couch DB at 10,000 feet
CouchDB is a document oriented database. It does not adhere to the
relational principles of traditional databases. While there is not much
room for technical details, we try to cover some of the cool things
CouchDB uses Erlang for to present a super simple yet professional data
storage model and the basis for Erlang-style high concurrency and fault
tolerance.
Since itsbeginnings around three years ago, CouchDB went from a self-funded, single-developer project to a small community project under the hood of the Apache Software Foundation and with the lead developer Damien Katz being paid by IBM to work fulltime on CouchDB.
Since itsbeginnings around three years ago, CouchDB went from a self-funded, single-developer project to a small community project under the hood of the Apache Software Foundation and with the lead developer Damien Katz being paid by IBM to work fulltime on CouchDB.