9. Best Practices

In this chapter, we present some of the best ways to use Apache CouchDB. These usage patterns reflect many years of real-world use. We hope that these will jump-start your next project, or improve the performance of your current system.

• 9.1. Document Design Considerations
  • 9.1.1. Don’t rely on CouchDB’s auto-UUID generation
  • 9.1.2. Alternatives to auto-incrementing sequences
• 9.2. Document submission using HTML Forms
  • 9.2.1. The HTML form
  • 9.2.2. The update function
  • 9.2.3. Example output
• 9.3. JavaScript development tips
• 9.4. Reverse Proxies
  • 9.4.1. Reverse proxying with nginx
  • 9.4.2. Reverse Proxying with Caddy