Bet Against SQL: Queries as Code by James Cowling & Sujay Jayakar

Traditional wisdom is to never bet against SQL but we’re here to convince you otherwise. The app development ecosystem accretes complexity year over year as a result of decades of bad design patterns and attempts to solve problems on the wrong layers of the stack. Consistent caching, dynamic subscriptions, and end-to-end type safety can all be provided automatically when databases are built with the right abstractions: queries that are real imperative programs.

We’ll give an overview of the problems facing modern application developers and how these can be solved by a better database. We’ll also dive into some of the details and challenges when implementing this stack from the ground up at Convex.

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