# Five more things

[Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase) · Ant Wilson · Dec 3, 2021

**Type:** Announcement

## 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.

**Tags:** [Caching](https://yomu.fyi/topic/caching), [GraphQL](https://yomu.fyi/topic/graphql), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source), [Performance](https://yomu.fyi/topic/performance), [Postgres](https://yomu.fyi/topic/postgres)

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