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Building a Full Cloud Backend with James Cowling
Aug 29, 2023
James Cowling, expert in building and maintaining popular apps and backends, discusses how Convex offers a simpler full-stack developer experience. They cover topics such as serverless backends, reactive UI frameworks, developer experience vs. user experience, the role of abstraction in language learning, the power of abstractions in database design, the challenges of implementing algorithms, and the dominance of JavaScript in the software industry.
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- Convex is a real-time backend platform that offers a simpler full-stack developer experience using TypeScript and is designed with reactive UI frameworks in mind.
- Convex abstracts away complex backend problems and provides a straightforward development experience, allowing developers to focus on building applications.
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The Growth and Benefits of Serverless Backend Platforms
Serverless backend platforms are rapidly gaining popularity due to their ability to accelerate application development and improve the developer experience. Convex, a real-time backend platform, offers a full-stack developer experience using TypeScript and is designed with reactive UI frameworks in mind. Convex aims to simplify backend infrastructure and enables engineers to build applications and products that scale. It provides a platform as a service with features for web and mobile applications. Convex's design allows developers to quickly get started and build productive applications without the need for a separate backend team.
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