Introduction Over the past years, Convex has grown into a flourishing backend platform. We designed Convex to let builders just build and not have to worry about irrelevant details about administering backend infrastructure. Yet, curious developers have been asking us: How does Convex actually work? With our recent open source release, now is a perfect time to answer this question. Let’s jump in. In this article, we’ll go on a tour of Convex, starting with an overview of the system. Then, we’ll ...