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Announcing Convex 0.1.5

Indexes have arrived! Now you can query large datasets efficiently and with confidence! This changes in this release are: * Indexes * Bye Bye Beta Keys * Simpler Authentication * Minor Improvements As always, if you have any questions about these new features, reach out in our Convex Slack Community [https://join.slack.com/

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

Announcing Convex 0.1.3

Schemas are here! This release has some big changes to Convex that we’re really excited to show to you all. Two of these are breaking changes that will require you to make minor updates to your app, so read carefully: * Schema Support * Breaking: Generated Code Changes * Breaking: db.update

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:

Being Intentional with Technical Debt

Being Intentional with Technical Debt

Technical Debt [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt] is the extra cost of current work caused by taking a shortcut in the past. Technical debt often gets a bad rep. It is often treated as symptom of a poorly run organization. Though there are some factual nuances to this

Graph showing a flat horizontal line representing the complexity of using Convex

The platform you need, when you need it

One of our goals here at Convex is to provide the right level of functionality at the right time in your application’s journey. From the prototype where you want to side step binding decisions to a mature high usage application with many developers, we strive to provide the right

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.

Announcing Convex 0.1.2

We just pushed another update to Convex! The big updates this time around are: * Error Handling * Create React App Support * Function Size Improvements * Polish If you aren't already in the Convex Slack Community [https://join.slack.com/t/convexcommunity/shared_invite/zt-zvqpuz43-RH0rUZNT5EC39iVGox06~A] , join us! We'd love to hear about

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

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 Dashboard * Easier Debugging with console.log To get upgrade instructions for this release (and in the future), run npx convex update. We’

Better Testing With Less Code Using Randomization

Better Testing With Less Code Using Randomization

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

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

A Tale of Three Rust Codebases

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 [https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/extending-magic-pocket-innovation-with-the-first-petabyte-scale-smr-drive-deployment] , Dropbox's geo-distributed data storage system. This system has run

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