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You can now use Convex with a single command without needing to set up a Convex account. This means it’s even easier to persuade your friends to check out Convex and to share an app that others can download and run for themselves.
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, retries, durable functions, journaling, and state machines. The missing abstraction layer for agentic is durable workflows, which bring them all together.
With this new backend component, augment Agents to automatically save and search message history per-thread, providing realtime results across multiple tabs and users. Use it with the Workflow component to run reliably with retries and durability across server restarts.
Convex MCP Server is now generally available, enabling AI agents to query your data, run functions, and automate complex tasks. Here are two crafty use cases we've already uncovered...
AI coding is here: The most productive developers are leveraging AI to speed up their workflows. This ranges from asking models questions about system design to letting AI take the driver's seat with tools like Cursor Composer.
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What You Missed in 2024 in the World of Databases, with Andy Pavlo
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3 months ago
Patterns
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With this new backend component, augment Agents to automatically save and search message history per-thread, providing realtime results across multiple tabs and users. Use it with the Workflow component to run reliably with retries and durability across server restarts.
Ian Macartney
7 days ago
New convex-helpers are available now for fetching streams of documents, merging them together, filtering them them out, and paginating the results. With these helpers, you can replicate patterns you may know from SQL: UNION ALL, JOIN, DISTINCT, GROUP BY, and WHERE clauses where index fields are skipped.
Lee Danilek
25 days ago
Here’s a cheatsheet with examples of conversions between SQL queries and Convex queries. This article is geared towards developers (and LLMs) who have familiarity with SQL and want to translate those familiar patterns into Convex queries. You'll learn how to `UNION`, `JOIN`, `DISTINCT`, do `WHERE` clauses, and `SELECT` fields.
Lee Danilek
a month ago
Explore techniques to improve transaction throughput and concurrency in ACID databases by reducing conflicts and optimizing database reads. This guide covers patterns like Queue, Hot and Cold Tables, and Predicate Locking with clear examples using Convex, providing developers with tools to handle high-throughput workflows effectively.
Lee Danilek
3 months ago
You can write a Convex query whose structure -- which index/order/filters to apply, if any -- depends on runtime factors. This article gives a recipe for building queries dynamically.
Lee Danilek
3 months ago
Convex's migrations component makes it easy and safe to run complex database migrations without causing any interruption to live traffic.
Jamie Turner
4 months ago
Learn about Automerge CRDTs for collaborative editing, syncing changes using Convex.
Ian Macartney
5 months ago
Convex Components enable an ecosystem of powerful building blocks to reduce the amount of code you have to write and maintain yourself. Geospatial search, Expo push notifications, LaunchDarkly feature flags, durable function workflows, and more.
Ian Macartney
6 months ago
Triggers automatically run code whenever data in a table changes. A library in the convex-helpers npm package allows you to attach trigger functions to your Convex database.
Lee Danilek
6 months ago
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Or how I learned to love BlockNote, Tiptap and ProseMirror OT sync.
Learn about Automerge CRDTs for collaborative editing, syncing changes using Convex.
Object sync engines manage a rich object graph across multiple clients and a centralized server and are a great fit for building local-first apps.
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You can now use Convex with a single command without needing to set up a Convex account. This means it’s even easier to persuade your friends to check out Convex and to share an app that others can download and run for themselves.
Sarah Shader
6 days ago
With this new backend component, augment Agents to automatically save and search message history per-thread, providing realtime results across multiple tabs and users. Use it with the Workflow component to run reliably with retries and durability across server restarts.
Ian Macartney
7 days ago
Convex MCP Server is now generally available, enabling AI agents to query your data, run functions, and automate complex tasks. Here are two crafty use cases we've already uncovered...
Jamie Turner
8 days ago
Convex might look like just a database, but for modern app developers, it's a full backend-as-a-service platform that replaces the complexity of stitching together ORMs, caching, rate limiting, realtime sync, and CI/CD. In this post, a startup founder walks through how they used Convex to build ClarityText—an AI-powered chat knowledge base—and explains why Convex delivers faster MVPs, deeper type safety, and a seamless developer experience without third-party services like Prisma, Redis, or Firebase. Perfect for developers evaluating backend choices in 2024 and beyond.
Matt Luo
12 days ago
Convex Panel simplifies development by integrating Convex’s powerful dashboard directly into the dev environment, eliminating the need to switch between browser tabs. Built as a React component, it provides real-time logs, table editing, and performance insights seamlessly within your workflow. This tool enhances productivity, streamlines debugging, and optimizes backend management for developers using Convex.
Bobby Alv
a month ago
Moving data between databases is never fun, but I needed to get 2 million MongoDB documents into Convex without losing my mind. This post walks through my migration script, covering everything from connecting databases to handling schema changes, batch processing, and error handling. If you’re thinking about moving from MongoDB to Convex, consider this your survival guide—coffee highly recommended!
Bobby Alv
a month ago
Authentication issues in real-time applications can cause security risks, especially when client-side queries run before validation. Ensuring authentication at the server (Next.js middleware), client (useConvexAuth()), and database (Convex functions) helps prevent unauthorized access. Using middleware, enforcing authentication in Convex functions, and leveraging custom hooks improves security and performance.
Jamal Lyons
a month ago
Matrix is a real-time RPG for language learning, using Convex for live updates and AI for translations. Players chat with nearby users on a shared map, leveraging a simple Convex backend for real-time interactions.
Jashwanth Peddisetty
2 months ago
Perspectives
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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, retries, durable functions, journaling, and state machines. The missing abstraction layer for agentic is durable workflows, which bring them all together.
I reimplemented Mastra’s agentic workflows with durable functions in Convex, and it was the wrong decision. Look at three common strategies (reimplementation, API wrapping, and “blessed” plugin paths), along with learnings along the way and reflections on what I’d do differently next time. TL;DR: Do less, do it smarter, and prototype faster.
AI coding is here: The most productive developers are leveraging AI to speed up their workflows. This ranges from asking models questions about system design to letting AI take the driver's seat with tools like Cursor Composer.
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, retries, durable functions, journaling, and state machines. The missing abstraction layer for agentic is durable workflows, which bring them all together.
Ian Macartney
7 days ago
With this new backend component, augment Agents to automatically save and search message history per-thread, providing realtime results across multiple tabs and users. Use it with the Workflow component to run reliably with retries and durability across server restarts.
Ian Macartney
7 days ago
I reimplemented Mastra’s agentic workflows with durable functions in Convex, and it was the wrong decision. Look at three common strategies (reimplementation, API wrapping, and “blessed” plugin paths), along with learnings along the way and reflections on what I’d do differently next time. TL;DR: Do less, do it smarter, and prototype faster.
Ian Macartney
18 days ago
AI coding is here: The most productive developers are leveraging AI to speed up their workflows. This ranges from asking models questions about system design to letting AI take the driver's seat with tools like Cursor Composer.
Jordan Hunt
a month ago
Convex now supports a powerful MCP server that lets you introspect your deployment's state, run functions, and read and write data.
Sujay Jayakar
a month ago
Coding agents can do more autonomously when they write code that has tight, automatic feedback loops; use systems that express everything in standard, procedural code; and have access to strong, foolproof abstractions.
Sujay Jayakar
2 months ago
A step-by-step guild using daily bots open-source real-time voice and video AI cloud technology to build an AI real-time shopping list app—all controlled by voice.
Mike Cann
3 months ago
After much experimentation I have found some good ways to improve the coding experience when using Cursor and Convex. In this article I share 6 tips to improve your workflow.
Mike Cann
3 months ago
Ever wondered what word sits perfectly between "sporty" and "practical"? Or perhaps "sweet" and "crunchy"? Midpoints is a new word game that gives you 10 chances to find the best match and scores you accordingly!
Tom Redman
5 months ago