The Convex Blog

Introducing Fast5

At Convex, we're creating a platform for managing global state for web developers. Unsurprisingly, we've found one of the best ways to improve our platform is to actually build stuff with it! So, over the next few months, we have a series of demo apps we'll be releasing that showcase

Convex

Announcing our Series A

We’re very excited to announce Convex’s $26M series A financing led by Andreessen Horowitz. General Partner Martin Casado is joining the Convex board. We’ve been fortunate to have had Martin involved in Convex as an angel investor and advisor since the early days of the company. He’

releases

Announcing Convex 0.1.0

Convex just hit version 0.1.0! This release focuses on developer experience improvements that should make building apps on Convex easier than ever: New Home for the DashboardEasier Debugging with console.logTo get upgrade instructions for this release (and in the future), run npx convex update. We’ve bumped

Programming

Better Testing With Less Code Using Randomization

Moving assertions into application code and randomizing test input helps bring more value from fewer tests.

react

The unfulfilled promise of functional ideals on the web

While the TIOBE language rankings might place traditional functional programming languages solidly outside the top 10, the paradigms advanced by those languages are foundational to the popular emerging technologies engineers are using today. Ideas around immutability, purity, and dataflow programming are quietly saturating our technologies like Bitcoin and React. And

Programming

A Tale of Three Rust Codebases

When is it a good time to start using Rust? The founding team at Convex has had the privilege of leading development on some of the most heavily used Rust-based systems in the world: Magic Pocket, Dropbox's geo-distributed data storage system. This system has run on close to a million

Hello serverless world

We're very excited to announce Convex, a new company empowering software developers to build sophisticated, highly dynamic serverless applications with ease. Earlier this year, Convex raised a $3.5M seed round led by Neo, with additional funding from Fathom, SV Angel, General Catalyst, and #ANGELS. We're also proud to have