Hi all! Time to take a look back on the past quarter of engineering work and how we tracked on our goals. The focus of the past quarter was on core primitives we’re missing and involved a number of open-ended design questions.
Module System
Make Convex more composable/extensible by providing support for self-contained components that run in their own namespace but within the same transactional context as the caller.
We came up with a great design and prototype that we’re using internally and will be getting customer feedback. We want to give a bit more time to reflect on the API and fine-tune the developer experience before launching it publicly however, since it’s quite a large change to the core of Convex.
Fun Run
Rearchitect our internal systems for executing user functions to significantly increase function parallelism.
Some backends are currently running on Fun Run but we haven’t yet rolled it out to all customers.
Open Source
Open source the core of the Convex backend so it can be run locally by developers as a single binary.
We’re pretty close but this isn’t done until it’s in your hands. We have an open source version running internally that we’ll be distributing in the near future.
Snapshot Import & Export
Support backup and restore for Convex projects while maintaining referential integrity for document IDs.
Shipped. We’re still making improvements to restoration for large projects. In the future we’ll add better support for storing multiple backup versions server-side.
Limits and Enforcement
Start enforcing limits on free accounts and charging customers for usage on pro accounts, with generous additional allowances.
Shipped. We realized in the process that we’ll be able to move faster with plan improvements by using a third-party usage-based billing provider so are working on this in the current quarter.
Search
Scale up vector search to be well ahead of customer workloads. Add prefix search and fuzzy search to full-text search.
Shipped. We’re happy with where search is for now although can always add more features like multi-field search in future.
Compliance
This wasn’t mentioned in our last post but the plan was to get Convex ready for our SOC-2 audit.
While the audit technically hasn’t finished it’s been going smoothly and we expect to have SOC-2 compliance soon.
Overall I’d give us a medium rating. We took on a number of fairly open ended projects with longer timelines and made good progress but going into the next quarter we want to tighten up execution a little and prioritize improving the experience for existing Convex customers with growing applications.
Module SystemMake Convex more composable/extensible by providing support for self-contained components that run in their own namespace but within the same transactional context as the caller.
We came up with a great design and prototype that we’re using internally and will be getting customer feedback. We want to give a bit more time to reflect on the API and fine-tune the developer experience before launching it publicly however, since it’s quite a large change to the core of Convex. Fun RunRearchitect our internal systems for executing user functions to significantly increase function parallelism.
Some backends are currently running on Fun Run but we haven’t yet rolled it out to all customers. Open SourceOpen source the core of the Convex backend so it can be run locally by developers as a single binary.
We’re pretty close but this isn’t done until it’s in your hands. We have an open source version running internally that we’ll be distributing in the near future. Snapshot Import & ExportSupport backup and restore for Convex projects while maintaining referential integrity for document IDs.
Shipped. We’re still making improvements to restoration for large projects. In the future we’ll add better support for storing multiple backup versions server-side. Limits and EnforcementStart enforcing limits on free accounts and charging customers for usage on pro accounts, with generous additional allowances.
Shipped. We realized in the process that we’ll be able to move faster with plan improvements by using a third-party usage-based billing provider so are working on this in the current quarter. SearchScale up vector search to be well ahead of customer workloads. Add prefix search and fuzzy search to full-text search.
Shipped. We’re happy with where search is for now although can always add more features like multi-field search in future. ComplianceThis wasn’t mentioned in our last post but the plan was to get Convex ready for our SOC-2 audit.
While the audit technically hasn’t finished it’s been going smoothly and we expect to have SOC-2 compliance soon.Overall I’d give us a medium rating. We took on a number of fairly open ended projects with longer timelines and made good progress but going into the next quarter we want to tighten up execution a little and prioritize improving the experience for existing Convex customers with growing applications.
