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You say you evaluated Cloudant and MongoDB, among others. Why did you decide on Cloudant?

So many kudos to Dale Harvey for driving this incredible project. CouchDB's concept of replication is itself mind-blowing, but PouchDB bringing that to the {app,client}-layer opens…

Yep! It replicates your remote database to a local store (IndexedDB on the browser, LevelDB in Node.js), so that losing connection doesn't stop your app. When you regain connection…

Cloudant is a hosted, managed, distributed database as a service. We're based on CouchDB, but then added clustering, then full-text search, and -- coming soon -- geo-indexing :D Bi…

Aye, which is why putting your administrative credentials in client-side JavaScript is an unspeakably bad idea. Instead, serve {client,user}-specific keys from the server on reques…

> especially after having named their product PouchDB. Ah, PouchDB isn't our product. It's just something super awesome that we want to support and promote. In fact, it's built by …

No sweat; still figuring that out myself. So, http://schema.org/ stores schemas describing a significant subset of all things ever. It's intended to use to mark up HTML so crawlers…

Maybe, but they're all WIMPs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Detection

tl;dr your system is more complicated than you realize, so scaling it will be more complicated than you think. Also, MongoDB's write lock is a pain in the ass.

Thanks! Re: callouts, duly noted for the next analysis.

Author here. I had a blast writing this. Thanks to everyone who helped me out with it. I'm constantly amazed by the compassion of the tech community. If you spot anything you want …