Jamie Turner (@jamwt) / X

Jamie Turner

2,522 posts

Jamie Turner

@jamwt

Co-founder/CEO of @convex. Former Sr. Director/Principal Engineer of Storage & Databases at Dropbox. Shameless startup junkie.

Seattle, WA, USA

Joined April 2009

Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Aug 27, 2025
"Convex is new and risky. SQL is forever!" In 1999, I used Python at my startup: "Python is new and risky. Perl is forever!" In 2014, I introduced Rust at Dropbox: "Rust is new and risky. C++ is forever!" Trust your instincts. If you see the future coming, pull it forward.
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Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Sep 13, 2025
Atlassian, fire away a cash offer anytime. DMs open.
Convex
@convex
Sep 13, 2025
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Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Aug 1, 2025
Why isn't everyone just using Kimi K2 on @GroqInc for codegen? Sure, it's only 90% as good as sonnet. But it's like 3x+ faster and 5x+ cheaper. Run it twice and you're ahead. This is the future: use validation, embrace failure, and run quick/cheap until success.
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Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Oct 3, 2025
OUTRAGED that we paid @theo good money for this. The very implication there are any circumstances under which you shouldn’t use convex…
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Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Jun 3, 2025
Okay. Despite @theo 's discount code, Sunday's T3 Chat outage was not Theo's fault, it was our fault. Here's the details...
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Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Nov 12, 2025
We just raised a bunch of money to reinvent backend engineering for developers. We have huge plans for Convex, and we need your help to realize them.
Convex raises $24M to reinvent backends
From news.convex.dev
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Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Oct 23, 2025
Cloudflare has workflows, Convex has workflows, now Vercel has workflows. New kinds of platforms are consolidating server-side compute and storage. This is because backend engineering is about to get squashed and abstracted away. 🧵👇
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Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Aug 29, 2025
If you know how computers work, how to build systems, how to profile, optimize, trace, and read papers: 1. You are rare right now. 2. You can have a huge impact on the technology industry over the next decade. 3. You should get a job at Convex and help us reinvent the cloud. ⬇️
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Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Sep 27, 2025
Y'all I lost years of my life to monads. Please stop recommending Effect. I have a job, I have kids.
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Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Sep 21, 2025
Vercel is amazing and this is a bad take. I dont agree with all their architectural strategies, but I'm still very happy they exist, and they make my (and my customers') job easier every day.
zek
@zekramu
Sep 19, 2025
Vercel is a cancer to the field of software
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Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Oct 7, 2025
I’m very grateful for all the love convex is getting now. But the vision for the platform six month to a year from now is so, so much more powerful. And more elegant. So I’m just anxious to hire great people so we can realize that vision ASAP.
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Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Sep 17, 2025
Chef is now open source. Also, we expanded our open source sponsorship program to support a bunch of great projects and developers. My thoughts...
Jordan Hunt
@huntjordan22
Sep 17, 2025
ya'll asked and we cooked. chef is now open source! check out the link below to see our system prompts and run it locally.
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Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Aug 2, 2025
Convex just passed 500,000 deployments. Three months ago we had 150,000. One million mark in 5 weeks? Maybe. We'll see. 📈
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Jamie Turner
@jamwt
Jun 3, 2025
Replying to @jamwt
1. Search indexing compaction caused users to slam the server with queries unnecessarily. 2. Client backoff wasn't good enough to prevent a self-DDOS. 3. While trying to fix the issue, we accidentally turned a medium problem into a big one. Full Details:
How Convex Took Down T3 Chat: June 1, 2025 Postmortem
From news.convex.dev
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