Five more things

Summary

Supabase announced a series of platform updates, technical releases, and community initiatives to conclude its Launch Week. The team open-sourced pg_graphql, an in-progress PostgreSQL extension that keeps schema generation, query parsing, and resolvers natively on the database server. Supabase also enabled a global CDN spanning over 250 cities, delivering edge caching with a default one-hour cache time for storage assets alongside TLS 1.3, HTTP/3 over QUIC, and Brotli compression. While Supabase Functions is not yet released, two public RFCs were opened to explore architecture options, leaning heavily toward container-based execution. Finally, the update introduced a free SaaS development course with egghead.io and launched the ten-day Holiday Hackdays hackathon.

Context

Supabase developers required native GraphQL capabilities, improved global latency and caching for storage and API traffic, and progress updates on serverless execution features.

Approach / What changed

Supabase open-sourced pg_graphql for in-database GraphQL resolution, deployed a 250-plus city CDN with HTTP/3 and TLS 1.3, released RFCs for containerized functions, and introduced community learning resources.

Takeaways

• pg_graphql inspects an existing PostgreSQL schema to handle schema generation, query parsing, and resolvers directly on the database server without external services.
• The Supabase CDN routes traffic through more than 250 cities, providing a default one-hour cache for storage assets, TLS 1.3 with 0-RTT session resumption, HTTP/3, and Brotli compression.
• Supabase opened RFC 0004 and RFC 0005 to share design options for Supabase Functions, with the team leaning toward a container-based implementation.

Related reading

• Supabase · Dec 3, 2021

  Kicking off the Holiday Hackdays

  Supabase has launched Holiday Hackdays, a ten-day virtual hackathon running from December 3rd to December 12th. The event invites participants to build open-source projects using Supabase features, following the recent introduction of row-level security for the Realtime API. Teams of one to five developers may build applications using any programming language or framework provided the code and design elements are created during the hackathon. Submissions will be evaluated on criteria such as inventiveness, technical execution, visual polish, and Supabase integration, with prizes dedicated to Realtime API usage and holiday-themed concepts. Members of the Supabase team will also take part by developing an open-source advent calendar showcasing community content.

  Thor Schaeff

• Supabase · Dec 17, 2021

  Holiday Hackdays Winners 2021

  Supabase organized the Holiday Hackdays 2021 hackathon following their launch week and announced the winning and runner-up community submissions. Selected winners include Swappy.one by Zernonia, the realtime polling platform rtPoll by Emilio and Federico Schepis, Santa Banter for holiday jokes by Andy Keogh, and the wishlist app the get list by glowdexapp. Recognized runners-up include Chivel for YouTube channel landing pages, the end-to-end encrypted e2ee-chat, a Flutter-based Holiday Sweater voting app, and a greeting card platform built by high school hackers. Winners receive limited-edition gold medal shirts, while runners-up earn silver medal shirts. All project submissions were made available for viewing on madewithsupabase.com.