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Convex joins the Jamstack Innovation Fund

Convex joins the Jamstack Innovation Fund

We started Convex [https://convex.dev] with a deep belief in the future of web development without complicated DevOps, fragile synchronization protocols, and the myriad other headaches traditional backends impose on developers. The inspirational vision was to let developers' responsibility end on their laptop. And to us, the viability of

Making Fast5 (#2): Backend Matters

Making Fast5 (#2): Backend Matters

Recap: In Mid May 2022, Convex released Fast5 [https://fast5.live], a multiplayer Wordle-style racing game as a demonstration of the Convex global state management platform [https://convex.dev]. Throughout May and June, we'll be featuring articles diving into how we approached various engineering challenges while creating Fast5. Previous posts:

Making Fast5 (#1): Local and Remote State

Making Fast5 (#1): Local and Remote State

While making Fast5, Convex's wordle-style multiplayer racing game, we ran into several interesting challenges. This week, let's dig into managing the combination of local and global state.

Introducing Fast5

Introducing Fast5

At Convex, we're creating a platform for managing global state for web developers [https://a16z.com/2022/04/27/investing-in-convex/]. 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

Announcing our Series A

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Announcing our Series A

We’re very excited to announce Convex’s $26M series A [https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2022/04/27/convex-series-a-26-million-developers-dump-databases/] financing led by Andreessen Horowitz [https://a16z.com/2022/04/27/investing-in-convex/]. General Partner Martin Casado [https://a16z.com/author/martin-casado/] is joining the Convex board. We’ve been

The unfulfilled promise of functional ideals on the web

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

Hello serverless world

Hello serverless world

We're very excited to announce Convex [https://convex.dev/], 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