Couchfake

couchfake is my personal project made to substitute Couchbase 2.0.2 before its official release. Long story short, my application development with Couchbase was blocked by this bug, which is going to be fixed in the upcoming 2.0.2; but I don't want to wait, so I made an inferior mimic.

Note: I'm not in Couchbase team.

Dissolution Effect

If you work in the software industry you probably have heard this Law of Free Product Economics:

If a product on the market can be monetized by any means other than directly selling it, a comparable version of that product will eventually be offered for free.

However the progress didn't stop there. With the flourishment of open source communities, software have become freer than free, and finally reached a state smothered by something I called Dissolution Effect:

In an open source community if a technology stack can be monetized by any means, a comparable stack will eventually be available as a combination of smaller, unprofitable stacks.

In other words, many parts of software industry have become so competitive, that any profitable software stack will tend to be dissolved into smaller pieces, until none of them is profitable.