Couchbase architecture
Before we move on to developing with Couchbase, it's useful to understand the general Couchbase architecture. While coding against a single-node cluster should generally be no different than coding against a 10-node cluster, supporting a production application does require deeper understanding of what could go wrong, as your application needs to scale out. In the following sections, I'll describe in more detail some of the concepts we've already seen, and the basics of how a Couchbase cluster operates.
Couchbase clusters
Fundamental to all Couchbase deployments is the notion of a cluster. This is a common term in the NoSQL world and generally refers to a collection of nodes performing operations on a data store in tandem. ...
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