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How Convex Works
The full, unabridged story on how the Convex internals work.
Inserting and querying JSON objects directly into the database is refreshing after hours of fiddling with schema definitions, pondering how to normalize a data model, or tinkering with an ORM. In programming languages, TypeScript has brought incremental typing to the masses, maintaining good ergonomics for early stage prototypes while allowing smooth adoption of rigor. One useful mental model of this approach is that the index is a data structure that allows efficiently mapping a point in logical time to a consistent snapshot of the state of the world at that timestamp.
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