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Agents rely on long-lived workflows, but when happens when they fail midway through? Here are the tools you need to manage correctness and reliability: transactions, idempotency, r…

I reimplemented Mastra’s agentic workflows with durable functions in Convex, and it was the wrong decision. Learn about three common integration strategies (reimplementation, API w…

One public comparison on latency is https://db-latency.vercel.app/ For comparisons, you can check out: https://stack.convex.dev/convex-vs-firebase https://stack.convex.dev/convex-v…

Very much agree. The tools for various jobs differ widely. However, my current take is that full-stack is more about enablement of engineers vs. a specific product or technology. T…

Author here- and yes as a disclaimer I work at Convex. As a caveat to that disclaimer, I pivoted my career to work here b/c I genuinely believe it moves the industry forward b/c of…

I'd like to get into the nuance of Frontend vs. Backend vs. Full stack Having a *backend* platform that has opinionated answers to schema / db access, file storage, auth, scheduled…

Solving the problem of having a transactionally consistent subscription on arbitrary data joins / fetches is hard, but it's so nice to have. If you haven't checked it out yet, Conv…

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