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It's a surprisingly tricky problem. I know all too well. If you want to minimize drama, it's worth still paying for Dropbox.

Makes sense to me

IME, engineers and "the discourse" when we argue on the Internet often conflate "ease of use" and "ease of learning". When we say "ease of use", we usually mean "ease of learning."…

Agree. If you want a fully reactive database (and not just hierarchy-based reactivity like Firebase) but want to keep your ACID + relational data modeling, check out https://convex…

Hi there. Another Convex cofounder here. SiteGuide ( https://siteguide.ai/ ) was the first to do vector embeddings with Convex, built by integrating Convex + Pinecone. This combina…

Yes, way less effort

> doesn’t explain what the data model it is proposing actually is in concrete terms. Fair enough. The goal of the post wasn't necessarily to comprehensively describe the product–so…

Article author here. Agree this is a necessary part of the change. Convex is working on our OSS strategy this year. Thanks for the feedback!

Article author here. It's not new "in the world", but often new to our users, who understand it less intuitively than pessimistic locking. Unless they're using Haskell or probably …

Also, yes, great pickup re: transactional memory. We talk about this internally all the time, this is the inspiration. Haskell: IO -> STM -> (pure) Convex: (The browser / Convex Ac…

Hi there Michael! We continue to love nomad. SQL is the C ABI of querying for sure. BI tools will never adapt to use Convex directly, and nor should they. So... yes, Convex actuall…

Folks for whom TypeScript is a big part of their project are going to be the most natural fit for Convex. But no, not necessarily exclusively TypeScript. For example, the existence…

Article author here. > It may actually be fine to just require everything to be typescript, but the idea that you'd require your application be written in the same language as your…

Article author here -- DuckDB is indeed cool. Another interesting bit of work in this space is LINQ on the microsoft side of things. And even list comprehensions end up having a sc…

Article author here, yep, that was the intended point. Agree the wording was unclear, and there's a footnote now clarifying that. Thanks!

Article author, here. Good point -- but the article actually proposes document relational, not hierarchical. Relational is definitely good!

Exercise hard in the morning. At 8:30p: Last big glass of water. Put phone on charger in non-bedroom and don’t touch until 7a. Keep the lights low and warm. Do low stimulation acti…

Yep and every lock is a spinlock. ;-)

(Founder / CEO of Convex here) Hi Shawn. I don't remember you bringing this up when we spoke in person recently, but it's a great question. In our opinion, the very best way to eva…

Convex | https://convex.dev | San Francisco 3/2 hybrid ONSITE| Front-end engineers, full-stack engineers Convex is a rapidly growing startup aiming to change the way the web is bui…

Pretty different approach, but with many application architectures today you can move beyond "hosting" into pure serverless with a stack like Vercel + Convex ( https://convex.dev )…

Unregulated capitalism. Regulation limits how much information/expertise disparity can tip the scales. It doesn't prevent it altogether (nor is that a constructive objective), but …

As one of those other team members of James's, I'd profess that if it's literally less than 50 lines of code, I'm probably still faster in Python (22 years of programming python). …