Supabase Beta August 2021

Summary

Supabase announced a thirty million dollar Series A funding round alongside multiple product updates and platform improvements during August 2021. The team opened an RFC for WALRUS, an initiative aimed at bringing Row Level Security to Postgres subscriptions via Write Ahead Log Realtime Unified Security. Auth updates included customizable SMS login messages, HCaptcha integration for passwordless authentication, and a revised email change flow that notifies both old and new addresses. Platform enhancements introduced a twelfth hosting region in Seoul, improved CSV importing for large files, and Dart reference documentation covering CRUD, Auth, and Realtime operations. Supabase reiterated an ongoing engineering focus on security, performance, and reliability to prepare the platform for production readiness across all workloads.

Takeaways

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   WALRUS (Write Ahead Log Realtime Unified Security) is a public RFC repository designed to bring Postgres Row Level Security into realtime subscriptions.

2. 2

   GoTrue authentication updates added HCaptcha support on passwordless logins to prevent abuse and adjusted email change endpoints to notify both old and new addresses.

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   Database and platform tooling improvements include support for composite primary keys, table creation with inline column setup, and expanded CSV file importing capabilities.