Events: convex

Events: convex

Feb 10

2025

04:30pm EDT
Feb 10 2025
[SQL Death] Larry Ellison was Right (kinda)! TypeScript Stored Procedures for the Modern Age
Speaker:
James Cowling
System:
Convex
Video:
YouTube

No one uses SQL to write business logic. It's written in a programming language with libraries, tests, type safety, and expressive syntax. Traditionally this was the domain of a backend team, who’d try to build enough functionality to keep the frontend team happy without breaking the database. This model hasn’t kept up with the needs of full stack developers though,... Read More

Nov 29

2021

04:30pm EDT
Nov 29 2021
[Vaccination 2021] Convex: Life Without a Backend Team (James Cowling)
Speaker:
James Cowling
System:
Convex
Video:
YouTube

Many of us have devoted decades of our lives to making databases faster, cheaper, more scalable, more reliable... much of which is completely irrelevant to the average developer. The main obstacle for the next generation of app developers is convenience. The "serverless revolution" and architectures like Jamstack demonstrate a desire for life without a backend team, yet current technologies in... Read More