Making Fast5 (#2): Backend Matters
Recap: In Mid May 2022, Convex released Fast5 [https://fast5.live], a
multiplayer Wordle-style racing game as a demonstration of the Convex global
state management
Making Fast5 (#1): Local and Remote State
While making Fast5, Convex's wordle-style multiplayer racing game, we ran into several interesting challenges. This week, let's dig into managing the combination of local and global state.
Introducing Fast5
At Convex, we're creating a platform for managing global state for web
developers [https://a16z.com/2022/04/27/investing-in-convex/]. Unsurprisingly,
we'
Announcing our Series A
We’re very excited to announce Convex’s $26M series A
[https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2022/04/27/convex-series-a-26-million-developers-dump-databases/]
financing led by Andreessen
The unfulfilled promise of functional ideals on the web
While the TIOBE language rankings might place traditional functional programming
languages solidly outside the top 10, the paradigms advanced by those languages
are foundational to