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# Dex Docs

Dex is **Durable Execution** — an abstraction over distributed systems for backend engineering. Durable storage persists data; Durable Execution persists **data and actions as execution**. Dex makes that idea structural: Flows, Steps, Connectors, Attributes, Channels, and RPCs as ordinary application code.

- [What is Durable Execution?](https://docs.superdurable.io/intro/what-is-durable-execution.md)
- [Why Dex?](https://docs.superdurable.io/intro/what-is-dex.md)
- [Quick Start](https://docs.superdurable.io/quick-start.md)
- [Primitives](https://docs.superdurable.io/primitives.md)
- [Build with AI](https://docs.superdurable.io/build-with-ai/dex-developer-skill.md)
- [Design Patterns](https://docs.superdurable.io/design-patterns.md)
- [Product Examples](https://docs.superdurable.io/use-cases.md)
- [Production](https://docs.superdurable.io/primitives/components.md)
- [References](https://docs.superdurable.io/reference.md)
- [Glossary](https://docs.superdurable.io/glossary.md)