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Agents Need Durable Workflows and Strong Guarantees(stack.convex.dev)
3 points by ianhmacartney 1y ago|1 comments
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by ianhmacartney 1y ago
Agents rely on long-lived workflows, but when happens when they fail midway through? Here are the tools you need to manage correctness and reliability: transactions, idempotency, retries, durable functions, journaling, and state machines. T
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I reimplemented Mastra workflows with my own durable functions and I regret it(stack.convex.dev)
1 points by ianhmacartney 1y ago|1 comments
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by ianhmacartney 1y ago
I reimplemented Mastra’s agentic workflows with durable functions in Convex, and it was the wrong decision. Learn about three common integration strategies (reimplementation, API wrapping, and “blessed” plugin paths), along with my learning
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by ianhmacartney 2y ago
One public comparison on latency is https://db-latency.vercel.app/ For comparisons, you can check out: https://stack.convex.dev/convex-vs-firebase https://stack.convex.dev/convex-vs-relation
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by ianhmacartney 2y ago
Very much agree. The tools for various jobs differ widely. However, my current take is that full-stack is more about enablement of engineers vs. a specific product or technology. Things at the protocol level (ProtoBuf, OpenAPI specs, etc.),
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by ianhmacartney 2y ago
Author here- and yes as a disclaimer I work at Convex. As a caveat to that disclaimer, I pivoted my career to work here b/c I genuinely believe it moves the industry forward b/c of the default correctness guarantees, along with o
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by ianhmacartney 2y ago
I'd like to get into the nuance of Frontend vs. Backend vs. Full stack Having a *backend* platform that has opinionated answers to schema / db access, file storage, auth, scheduled jobs / async workflow, text/vector sear
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by ianhmacartney 2y ago
Solving the problem of having a transactionally consistent subscription on arbitrary data joins / fetches is hard, but it's so nice to have. If you haven't checked it out yet, Convex provides this out of the box. A blog post
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Customize server functions in TypeScript without middleware(stack.convex.dev)
1 points by ianhmacartney 3y ago|0 comments