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The complaint I hear about Convex more than any other? "Auth still isn't good enough." And we agree. Getting auth set up correctly is notoriously painful. And we've learned that when you design an auth system that is so simple it works out of| Convex News
Over the past few months, more than a quarter of a million people have used Chef to create awesome full-stack projects. Over that time, we've gotten lots of feedback on what's worked, what hasn't, and we've continually iterated and improved on the project. But here's the thing: we never really| Convex News
Async Index Backfills We promised this in our last set of updates, so we’re delivering them now. You can now stage indexes so that backfilling them won’t block your deployments. If you have large tables, you’ll want to check this out. Read the docs. Node 20 and| Convex News
Convex is hiring! Our platform has grown a ton and we want to make sure that our team scales appropriately. We have a lot planned for the next year, so if you want to be a part of a truly dedicated team, check out our values here and apply here.| Convex News
It's been a busy seven months since Convex 1.0 was released. Twenty times as many developers are using Convex every week, and their apps generate 50 times as much traffic on our platform. We've shipped ten significant releases since 1.0, including major features like vector search, preview deployments,| Convex News
Convex & Resend Hackathon The Convex Resend Component gives your app reliable transactional emails. We’ve partnered with Resend for a hackathon. Build a full-stack app using the Convex Resend Component and compete for $5k in cash, prizes, and credits! Join the Hackathon New chat button in Chef Sometimes it’s| Convex News
RAG Component Convex now has a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) component. You can now easily chunk, namespace, filter, and do surrounding data retrieval when working with large documents in your AI apps. Use the component Convex on PlanetScale Postgres Convex is switching to PlanetScale from AWS Aurora for its underlying data| Convex News
Convex is now powered by PlanetScale for Postgres. And wow, is it fast.| Convex News
Pricing was one of the most challenging decisions when launching Convex GA two years ago. At the time, we had a general idea about who we were serving, what value we'd provide them, and what a fair price was to charge for that value. But we didn'| Convex News
Automatic Axiom dashboard If you’re using Axiom for your log streams, you now get an automatic dashboard to help you get a better understanding of your metrics. Go forth and slice and dice! Set up Axiom Log Streams New Starter Plan We've launched a new pricing plan for folks| Convex News
I used to co-host a podcast called The Downtime Project. Each episode, my old friend Tom Kleinpeter and I walked through a public tech postmortem, extracted lessons, and related our own stories about outages of our past projects. Back then, in 2021, Convex was just a prototype. Once or twice,| Convex News
Sure, Chef's got everyone talking, but the Convex crew has been busy cooking up some awesome enhancements to our core platform! Dive in and see what's fresh: Better file storage UI in the dashboard Some of our apps (ahem, Chef) have a large number of files. We’ve updated the| Convex News
Chef is a new AI app builder from Convex. It's awesome at full-stack engineering.| Convex News
Self-hosting has taken off. We recently crossed 3k GitHub stars (please star if you haven’t already), and it’s inspired us to make the Convex plans more transparent and powerful. So let’s go through everything we just launched: Starter plan seat limit increase from 2| Convex News
We're thrilled to announce that Convex is now integrated with Tempo, an AI-powered code generator with a visual interface designed for building production-ready software. This integration allows developers to set up SaaS applications quickly without dealing with boilerplate infrastructure. What is Tempo? Tempo is an AI code generator with a| Convex News
Self-hosting improvements From a local Postgres setup guide to a YouTube self-hosting setup walkthrough, the community is enthusiastically embracing self-hosted Convex. Guided by the feedback, the team has been cranking out improvements to the self-hosted product: MySQL support S3 support for file storage Streaming import via Airbyte Increased function concurrency| Convex News
Convex is now self-hostable. We’ve open sourced the dashboard, added support for storing data in Postgres in addition to SQLite (plus MySQL very soon!), and packaged it all up in a docker container you can run locally or on a cloud hosting provider. We’re also joining the Open| Convex News
