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Why I moved away from SQL

2025-07-19 Science & Technology
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Convex is one of those products I just kinda wrote off. At least until people I trusted started using them. I finally gave them a real shot, and now I'll never go back... Thank you Augment Code for sponsoring! Check them out at: https://soydev.link/augmentcode Want to sponsor a video? Learn more here: https://soydev.link/sponsor-me Check out my Twitch, Twitter, Discord more at https://t3.gg S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

Top Comments (10)

@17_Medy 2025-07-19

Bro is never uploading the Cloneathon video

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@danielfrg91 2025-07-21

Convex part starts around 32:16 before that is mostly just drama according to an AI

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@KastanDay 2025-07-19

A DB is the soul of a app. We need a 2nd video with all the little details of delight from Convex.

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@amaan2025 2025-07-20

he needs to start adding post credit scenes and start calling these movies

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@ytlongbeach 2025-07-20

I'm a Full Stack engineer that has been mostly backend-oriented my whole career. To me, SQL and tuning RDMBS systems is awesome and very powerful. ORMs are a fine intermediate layer, and I find I almost never deal with SQL directly; although, I'm fully aware it's under the hood. React Query works fine talking with the backend over REST APIs, which are backed by the database. I do not see how "moving away from SQL" makes sense, as it's already abstracted three levels deep (SQL => ORM => REST API => React Query).

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@bartwastakenagain 2025-07-19

Please do that in detail video! This was great

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@kettenbach 2025-07-19

Theo is my favorite shill provider 👍

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@gorglin 2025-07-19

Learned of convex from one of your videos, about switching to it for t3 initially. I switched last month, and it was a game changer for me. Not looking back, running with this 100%

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@Vinit_Agrawal 2026-01-11

Thanks for telling the whole story. I have started exploring Convex because of your videos and having fun building with it. Looking forward to the detailed convex videos. Especially excited about Convex Components like workflow for running Durable code.

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@AppDeveloper8192 2025-07-20

This is really great. I’ve been building this way for years, this really condenses the approach into a really nice package.

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