Welcome to Episode 65 of the Cloud Wars Horizon Minute — featuring news and commentary hosted by Acceleration Economy analyst Tom Smith. Each episode provides insights into one or more innovation accelerators on the Cloud Wars Horizon. This episode focuses on an updated cloud database product release from Couchbase.
Highlights
00:42 — Today’s focus is developer-centric enhancements to Couchbase’s Capella, which is the company’s database as a service. It has placed a big bet on customers’ willingness and desire to run their database in the cloud.
01:05 — A new release of Capella delivers a GitHub-like experience that is meant to be familiar for developers, more efficient than its predecessors, and an upgrade that makes it easy to get up and running so adoption expands.
01:32 — The new developer user interface (UI) represents a fundamental shift toward being developer-centric vs. being operations-centric.
01:50 — The interface emphasizes developer-oriented tasks and curates a journey based on the developer’s level of familiarity and experience. Anderson mentioned three specific items that reflect developer centricity developer’s level of familiarity and experience. They are:
- The configuration steps to get a cluster and an endpoint up and running have been streamlined with a reduced number of clicks.
- The developer can choose an embedded SDK (software development kit) from within the UI vs. having to go outside the UI.
- Tutorials are embedded directly in the control plane for faster access and utilization, rather than residing on a separate site.
This Cloud Wars Horizon Minute is sponsored by Celonis, the market leader in process mining and execution management. The world’s top 2,000 process fanatics learned to fix process inefficiencies at Celosphere, the company’s annual conference, which was held November 9th and 10th in Munich, Germany. Sign up to watch the free virtual Celosphere 2022 stream here.
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