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Even though Convex supports the creation of cron jobs out of the box, until now, we've only supported static jobs. With user space crons, we now support the programmatic definition of crons at runtime.
Convex Auth is a library for implementing authentication natively in your Convex backend.
The full, unabridged story on how the Convex internals work.
Convex offers robust control over pagination with a powerful function, getPage, enabling complex edge cases. In this article, we go over how to use that function in your Convex app.
Log streams like Axiom and Datadog can be used to provide powerful querying and alerting on logs and errors from your Convex functions, helping with debugging issues when they come up and providing early insights to detect smaller issues before they become bigger.
This article covers how to do the several common things with either Axiom or Datadog hooked up as a Convex log stream including filtering to a request, logging structured metadata, and visualizing usage.
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Convex offers robust control over pagination with a powerful function, getPage, enabling complex edge cases. In this article, we go over how to use that function in your Convex app.
Lee Danilek
15 days ago
08:38
With Convex's magic query cache, Convex's powerful subscriptions are cached, not merely values. So you get fast, jank-free renders with no cache consistency or invalidation headaches.
Jamie Turner
a month ago
Log streams like Axiom and Datadog can be used to provide powerful querying and alerting on logs and errors from your Convex functions, helping with debugging issues when they come up and providing early insights to detect smaller issues before they become bigger.
This article covers how to do the several common things with either Axiom or Datadog hooked up as a Convex log stream including filtering to a request, logging structured metadata, and visualizing usage.
Sarah Shader
a month ago
By leveraging HTTP actions with streaming, this chat app balances real-time responsiveness with efficient bandwidth usage. Users receive character-by-character updates to their own responses directly from ChatGPT, while other users see periodic updates, minimizing database bandwidth.
Sarah Shader
2 months ago
You'll often want to retrieve unique records from your database. While SELECT DISTINCT is the traditional way to do this in SQL databases, we've improved on this pattern in Convex by making it more consistent.
Nipunn Koorapati
2 months ago
Implementing application rate limiting when you have fast access to a database with strong ACID guarantees. Token bucket and fixed window, with fairness, burst accommodation and fire-and-forget support.
Ian Macartney
2 months ago
Compare push-based load balancing with pull-based work stealing as scalable strategies for distributing resource-intensive workloads, such as running LLM models for AI apps.
Ian Macartney
2 months ago
Implementing "work stealing" - a workload distribution strategy - using Convex's reactive database.
Ian Macartney
2 months ago
Online migrations in Convex using mutations. Including a helper to track migration state!
Ian Macartney
3 months ago
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Even though Convex supports the creation of cron jobs out of the box, until now, we've only supported static jobs. With user space crons, we now support the programmatic definition of crons at runtime.
Our CTO James gave a talk at Developer Week 2024 about how backends have been letting down product developers by not providing clean abstractions that empower development without introducing unnecessary complexity.
James outlines four major failures of the status quo:
* Bad ideas in query models
* Bad ideas in type systems
* Bad ideas in caching and performance
* Bad ideas in data sync
He explains why these exist, how they are holding back developers, and discusses recent innovations at Convex that address these four areas.
22:05
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Even though Convex supports the creation of cron jobs out of the box, until now, we've only supported static jobs. With user space crons, we now support the programmatic definition of crons at runtime.
James Cowling
9 days ago
Check this video out for an in-depth 6 hour tutorial on building your own version of Fiverr using Convex.
freeCodeCamp
3 months ago
6:02:01
Our CTO James gave a talk at Developer Week 2024 about how backends have been letting down product developers by not providing clean abstractions that empower development without introducing unnecessary complexity.
James outlines four major failures of the status quo:
* Bad ideas in query models
* Bad ideas in type systems
* Bad ideas in caching and performance
* Bad ideas in data sync
He explains why these exist, how they are holding back developers, and discusses recent innovations at Convex that address these four areas.
James Cowling
5 months ago
22:05
Web Dev Cody guides viewers in creating a comprehensive full stack file storage application on YouTube. The tutorial covers features like organizations, file upload, management, role-based authorization, authentication, cron deletes, favorites, trash functionality, and various UI components such as dialogs, modals, toasts, dropdowns, and more.
Web Dev Cody
5 months ago
4:37:21
Hi all 👋 In this 8 hour tutorial you will learn how to create an end-to-end fullstack notion clone, all with proper notion-style editor, cover images, nested documents, publishing documents to public, real-time database and more.
Code With Antonio
10 months ago
7:53:12
Convex offers robust control over pagination with a powerful function, getPage, enabling complex edge cases. In this article, we go over how to use that function in your Convex app.
Lee Danilek
15 days ago
In this 7 hour tutorial, you will learn how to create an end-to-end full stack Todoist clone, with AI features to help you organize and suggest missing items in your list with adding, deleting tasks, authentication, search using Zod, Next.js, Convex, React, Next.js Auth V5 i.e. Auth.js, Google Sign in, ShadCN UI library, React hook forms, TypeScript, OPenAI, TailwindCSS and more.
Ankita Kulkarni
a month ago
7:07:01
Learn the basics of HTTP streaming with Convex by re-implementing OpenAI's SDK using built-in fetch and async iterators. No npm dependencies needed.
Ian Macartney
a month ago
Learn the basics of HTTP streaming with Convex by re-implementing OpenAI's SDK using built-in fetch and async iterators. No npm dependencies needed.
Ian Macartney
a month ago
By leveraging HTTP actions with streaming, this chat app balances real-time responsiveness with efficient bandwidth usage. Users receive character-by-character updates to their own responses directly from ChatGPT, while other users see periodic updates, minimizing database bandwidth.
Sarah Shader
2 months ago
Implementing "work stealing" - a workload distribution strategy - using Convex's reactive database.
Ian Macartney
2 months ago
I recently built a full-stack app called notesGPT. It allows you to record a voice note, transcribes it, and extract action items and display them as action items. It’s fully open source and comes equipped with authentication, storage, vector search, action items, and is fully responsive on mobile for ease of use.
Hassan El Mghari
5 months ago
Using Convex, 4 web devs built their own fullstack app based on this prompt:
> Build a way to show real-time updates on the website for a Dungeons and Dragons-themed small business!
See what they built, learn how they did it, and watch their reactions to each other's work in this installment of the "4 Web Devs, 1 App Idea" video series.
Jason Lengstorf
7 months ago
This year vector databases have sprung up like mushrooms to enable applications to retrieve context based on semantic search. A large portion of these applications have used the retrieved context to augment the ability of large language models (LLMs) in a pattern known as RAG. On November 7th OpenAI released its Assistants API, enabling the implementation of AI chat interfaces with context retrieval without needing a separate message store or vector database. Does this new API make vector databases obsolete?
Michal Srb
8 months ago
Convex is a full-stack development platform and cloud database, including built-in vector search. In this third post in our [series](https://stack.convex.dev/ai-chat-using-openai-assistants-api), we’ll build an AI-powered chat interface using Convex, with our own message storage and context retrieval.
Michal Srb
8 months ago
In this second post in our series, we’ll build an AI-powered chat interface using LangChain and its new Convex integration.
Michal Srb
8 months ago
On November 7th OpenAI released its Assistants API, enabling chat bot with context retrieval implementations without needing a messages or vector database. In this post, we’ll cover how to leverage this API to build a fully functioning AI chat interface.
Michal Srb
8 months ago
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