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.

Takeaways

1. 1

   pg_graphql inspects an existing PostgreSQL schema to handle schema generation, query parsing, and resolvers directly on the database server without external services.

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   Supabase opened RFC 0004 and RFC 0005 to share design options for Supabase Functions, with the team leaning toward a container-based implementation.