A quick talk on the merits of Cloudant and CouchDB, why the HTTP layer makes it amazing for frontend and how awesome and quick PouchDB is.

1. HITTING THE
COUCHCouchDB at MadridJS

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3. WHO AM I?
MIKE ELSMORE
DEVELOPER ADVOCATE
MIKE.ELSMORE@CLOUDANT.COM

4. CLOUDANT
What is it?
http://cloudant.com

5. COUCHDB

6. HTTP ALL THE THINGS

7. REPLICATION & SYNC

8. VIEWS

9. SEARCH

10. GEO

11. WHAT YOU CAN DO

12. OFFLINE

13. MIND BLOWN

14. POUCHDB

15. RESOURCES
http://cloudant.com
https://cloudant.com/for-developers/
https://docs.cloudant.com/
http://pouchdb.com/
https://github.com/cloudant
https://github.com/glynnbird/couchimport
https://github.com/glynnbird/celsius

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