The founders of Convex are some of the most talented developers I know.
The CTO worked with Turing-award winner Barbara Liskov on Viewstamped Replication Revisited [1], the revision of the pioneering consensus protocol, and later the founding team pulled off the migration of Dropbox from S3 to their own custom storage stack called Magic Pocket [2].
The deterministic simulation testing techniques [3] they used to develop Dropbox's revised sync algorithm are still state of the art today (few systems are designed to be tested like this), and the online verification techniques [4] they used to verify their production systems are vital to building large-scale systems safely.
I can't think of a stronger technical team to do something like Convex, and couldn't imagine a better devops team to be running the backend.
The CTO worked with Turing-award winner Barbara Liskov on Viewstamped Replication Revisited [1], the revision of the pioneering consensus protocol, and later the founding team pulled off the migration of Dropbox from S3 to their own custom storage stack called Magic Pocket [2].
The deterministic simulation testing techniques [3] they used to develop Dropbox's revised sync algorithm are still state of the art today (few systems are designed to be tested like this), and the online verification techniques [4] they used to verify their production systems are vital to building large-scale systems safely.
I can't think of a stronger technical team to do something like Convex, and couldn't imagine a better devops team to be running the backend.
[1] https://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/vr-revisited.pdf
[2] https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-ama...
[3] https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...
[4] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/velocity-conference-new...