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10 Years Since grunt-semantic-release: More of What Neighbourhoodie Got Up To posted Wednesday, August 13, 2025 by The Neighbourhoodie Team News

We recently shared a blast from the past with a 10-year-old Neighbourhoodie update back from when we were working on Greenkeeper, a first-of-its-kind dependency automation service. These are commonplace now, but at the time we were working on it, dependency management very much belonged to a manual world. The software release process also doesn’t resemble today what it did 10 years ago.

NH:STA S01E05 Log4j posted Tuesday, August 5, 2025 by The Neighbourhoodie Team AnnouncementNews

This post is part of our series on our work for the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA), formerly the Sovereign Tech Fund. Our introduction post explains why and how we are contributing to various Open Source projects.

In this episode, we look at migrating test suites, cover that infamous vulnerability and speak to Alba Herrerías Ramírez and Julia Krüger about their work on the project.

10 Years Since Greenkeeper: Early Days at Neighbourhoodie posted Wednesday, July 30, 2025 by The Neighbourhoodie Team ReleaseNews

Chances are you use a dependency update service in your projects, and if it’s good at what it does, you’ve happily left it to its devices. 10 years ago things looked a little different without these services, but the Neighbourhoodies had already started work on a solution, even before “Hoodie” became Neighbourhoodie. Greenkeeper was one of the first dependency automation solutions, and we’re incredibly proud of creating it.

NH:STA S01E04 systemd posted Wednesday, July 23, 2025 by The Neighbourhoodie Team AnnouncementNews

This post is part of our series on our work for the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA), formerly the Sovereign Tech Fund. Our introduction post explains why and how we are contributing to various Open Source projects.

This episode takes a closer look at DNS lookups in Linux, discover how the team fixed some parser bugs and talk to Neighbourhoodie’s James Coglan about the impact of extending test.

An Excerpt From Neighbourhoodie News posted Wednesday, July 2, 2025 by The Neighbourhoodie Team NewsCouchDB

The Neighbourhoodie team has a recurring newsletter with CouchDB news and more — if you didn’t know about it, you should definitely subscribe.

Why Choose CouchDB in 2025: Annual Apache CouchDB User Survey Results posted Wednesday, June 18, 2025 by CouchDB Team CouchDBNews

It’s been a minute, but we’re back at it! We’re very happy to have resumed this initiative and report on the Annual Apache CouchDB User Survey. We’re as eager as you to learn what everyone is thinking, so without further ado, let’s go!

“I've had 0 production issues in 15 years.”

Local-First Conf Recap posted Wednesday, June 4, 2025 by The Neighbourhoodie Team NewsOffline-FirstEventsTutorial

The Neighbourhoodie team attended the 2025 edition of the local-first conference and community day in Berlin and we are very happy we did.

We met a ton of nice people, got inspired by new ideas and learned a lot about the local-first community. Alex ran a well-reviewed PouchDB Workshop at the community event & Jan gave a well-received talk at the conference.

We’re Going to Local-First Conf — Let’s Connect posted Wednesday, May 7, 2025 by CouchDB Team CouchDBOffline-FirstAnnouncementNews

Want to see PouchDB and CouchDB do Local-First? The second edition of the Local-First Conference is taking place in Berlin from May 26-28th and kicks off with a Community Day.

Find out what the CouchDB and PouchDB communities will be up to, how you can find us and what goodies await.

Celebrate 10 Years with Us — Get SQS for Free! posted Thursday, November 21, 2024 by The Neighbourhoodie CouchDB Team AnnouncementNewsProduct

We’re celebrating our 10th birthday by giving away five (5) licenses for Structured Query Server (SQS). SQS is the tool that gives more teammates access to your CouchDB data in SQL. Here’s everything you need to know about grabbing your license.

NH:STA S01E03 Yocto posted Wednesday, October 9, 2024 by The Neighbourhoodie Team AnnouncementNews

This post is part of our series on our work for the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA), formerly the Sovereign Tech Fund. Our introduction post explains why and how we are contributing to various Open Source projects.

In this instalment of the series, we learn why the team dug into more than 200 CVEs from as far back as 1998, and what else they did to help both the Yocto project and Linux security more broadly.

NH:STA S01E02 OpenPGP.js posted Wednesday, September 11, 2024 by The Neighbourhoodie Team AnnouncementNews

This post is part of our series on our work for the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA), formerly the Sovereign Tech Fund. Our introduction post explains why and how we are contributing to various Open Source projects.

NH:STA S01E01 Sequoia-PGP posted Wednesday, August 7, 2024 by The Neighbourhoodie Team AnnouncementNews

This post is part of our series on our work for the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA), formerly the Sovereign Tech Fund. Our introduction post explains why and how we are contributing to various Open Source projects.

In our first project with the STA — and first episode of the season — we take a closer look at sequoia-git and use our frontend skills to help the project.

Neighbourhoodie and the Sovereign Tech Agency posted Thursday, June 6, 2024 by The Neighbourhoodie Team News

We have exciting news to share: Neighbourhoodie is an official Implementation Partner of the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA), formerly the Sovereign Tech Fund, and their Tech Resilience Program.

Introducing Structured Query Server posted Tuesday, March 5, 2024 by The Neighbourhoodie Team ProductAnnouncementNews

In the vast realm of databases, two types have consistently marked their presence – the traditional SQL databases and the more flexible NoSQL counterparts. SQL databases, with their structured nature, have been serving businesses for decades. On the other hand, NoSQL databases, notably Apache CouchDB, have catered to the needs of modern web applications and their semi-structured data requirements.

While both have their distinct strengths, there's often been a wish amongst users and developers for something that combines the two — a tool that brings together the scalability of NoSQL with the precise querying of SQL. In response to this need, Neighbourhoodie presents the Structured Query Server. Designed with feedback from the developer community, this addition aims to address common challenges faced by CouchDB users and offer enhanced capabilities for data analysts.

This blog is going show the features of our Structured Query Server for Apache CouchDB, its application, and how it harmonise the two different approaches.