Co-founder/CEO of @convex. Former Sr. Director/Principal Engineer of Storage & Databases at Dropbox. Shameless startup junkie.
Joined April 2009
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Jun 13
Just to get ahead of it: the next Convex outage will also be one of these national security takedown things
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Jun 6
Practice safe vibing with scoped deployment keys
Hi Nick! We just shipped deploy keys with custom permissions. These let you ensure your agent only has access to safe actions.
You can create a deploy key from your deployment settings (dashboard.convex.dev/deploym…)
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Jun 5
Coding was never the hard part.
My advice: calm down. Take a walk and leave your phone behind. Try to make a friendly conversation with a stranger.
Keep putting one foot in front of the other. Maybe buy some bonds.
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May 29
Thought experiment: if every company suddenly had infinite free compute, what new products would emerge?
My take: with very few exceptions, not much would change. The bottleneck is figuring out what people want, and it’s not so easy to apply compute to solve that.
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May 28
Live now!
May 28
Starting in 30min - 10 AM PT
@convex founders ama with @jamwt and @jamesacowling
Bring your questions!
youtube.com/live/QxLyYG8oqQw…
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May 26
I think we have some spare slots for trivia night tomorrow! Come with a team or come solo. Just come excited about systems, databases, security, networking etc
May 26
Systems Trivia Night 2.0 this Wednesday @convex.
A competition for systems and backend engineers who
think they are smarter than agents.
luma.com/8p7rw4m5
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May 23
This is 100% right. And it’s so exciting.
Because it’s finally time to build. I think we have a good sense of what we’ll be working with. And there’s a lot of work we can do to make it successful.
May 23
Whenever someone talks about how much models have improved over the last 3, 6, or 12 months I’m like “sure, but not enough to matter”.
I’m still solving the same problems I was solving a year ago and there’s no plausible path forward. If you honestly ask yourself how much has genuinely changed I think it will make you a lot more grounded about how much might change in the future.
It’s not to say there’s not been visible improvement, but there have been no exponential leaps in capabilities of the technology. Only exponential micro benchmarks.
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May 22
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May 21
PDX I wasn't really familiar with your game.
Portland, your airport is beautiful.
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May 20
James and I recorded a podcast recently on our collected wisdom and advice about service incident handling.
Tip #7 will shock you.
we recorded a podcast last week about oncall and incident response best practices. i'm not saying that if you're currently putting out a fire you should drop everything and watch this video, but it wouldn't be the worst idea.
youtu.be/_W4OrWR-3yo?si=F6cQ…
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May 19
MySQL > Postgres > SQLite
*logs off*
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May 19
The "how do you use convex?" conversation has converged to this over the last six months for bigger companies.
Vibe coding or traditional engineering? Both. And Convex components create the internal platform that provides the safe foundation for their specific business.
May 19
Talking to customers we're seeing the rapid rise of a two-tiered engineering model for agentic dev. A small set of experienced engineers develop safe components to reuse in their company while a large set of less experienced folks build a huge amount of product surface on top.
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May 16
I enjoyed reading this Reddit post
ALT I want to hate it, because it seems wrong, but our rather complex app is running perfect on the canary version and with slightly less memory consumption and better performance. Whatever issues it has, can hopefully be ironed out at the same speed it was built. Stalling and letting it diverge from the zig version wouldn't have been great either
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May 11
A good day to remember that your mama doesn't give a shit about claude code vs codex.
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May 9
Rust is an enormous pain in the ass.
And yet it would’ve been completely infeasible to build Convex without it.
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May 9
It don’t matter until it do
May 9
why: I am so tired of worrying about & spending lots of time fixing memory leaks and crashes and stability issues. it would be so nice if the language provided more powerful tools for preventing these things.
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May 9
If you want happy users, you should think about system performance the way BEAM/OTP/Erlang does.
Stop wasting time on bullshit benchmarks.
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