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In this talk from RubyFringe, Damien Katz explains what drove him to create CouchDB, why he chose Erlang and more. Bio Damien Katz has worked for Lotus, MySQL, IBM and is the creator of CouchDB. He blogs at http://damienkatz.net/ . About the conference RubyFringe is an avant-garde conference for developers that are excited about emerging Ruby projects and technologies. They're mounting a unique and eccentric gathering of the people and projects that are driving things forward in our community.