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PostgREST 9
PostgREST 9 introduces several core updates to the tool that turns PostgreSQL databases into RESTful APIs. Developers can now perform inner joins when embedding tables using the !inner keyword, allowing top-level table rows to be filtered directly by embedded table attributes across multiple operators. The release also adds support for POST requests to functions containing a single unnamed parameter, which simplifies handling raw JSON payloads sent by external webhooks. To ensure compatibility with PostgreSQL 14, custom authentication functions accessing HTTP context headers and JWT claims must be updated to parse JSON properties from consolidated settings. Additional enhancements included in this version provide support for partitioned tables alongside documentation improvements and bug fixes.
Supabase Launch Week III: Holiday Special
Supabase organized Launch Week III: Holiday Special from November 29 to December 3, 2021, delivering daily product releases, tooling improvements, and ecosystem announcements. The week began with Community Day to showcase external contributions and open source tooling utilized by the team. On Tuesday, Supabase released Supabase Studio, allowing engineers to utilize the official platform management dashboard in self-hosted configurations and local development workflows. Midweek releases included the rollout of Realtime Row Level Security on Wednesday, followed immediately by Thursday's announcement detailing the acquisition of Logflare. The five-day launch series concluded on Friday with a final batch of five distinct feature announcements across the Supabase platform.
Supabase Beta October 2021
Supabase announced its October 2021 beta release, introducing three new authentication providers for Slack, Spotify, and MessageBird phone logins. The platform rolled out database multi-schema support, enabling users to browse different database schemas directly within the Dashboard interface and query them through the PostgREST API after enabling schema access. Documentation and instructional resources were expanded to cover PostgreSQL functions, authentication server-side functions, RedwoodJS quickstarts, self-hosting architectures, and production readiness checklists. In addition to ecosystem releases such as supabase-py v0.0.3, nuxt-supabase v2.2.1, and vue-supabase v2.2.3, the project reached over 21,268 GitHub stars. The team also announced Launch Week III: The Trilogy, set to begin on November 29th on Discord.
Supabase $30m Series A
Supabase announced a $30 million Series A funding round led by Coatue, bringing its total funding to $36 million. The company aims to provide an open source alternative to Firebase while addressing the scalability limitations typical of abstracted database platforms. Rather than building a compatibility layer, Supabase provisions a full PostgreSQL database for every project alongside integrated authentication, storage, RESTful APIs, and realtime data streaming. Platform features rely directly on core PostgreSQL primitives, including Row Level Security policies, database triggers, and logical replication streams. Funding will support long-term development of a cloud-native PostgreSQL platform offering database branching, distributed read-write nodes, scalable storage, and ephemeral compute that scales down to zero.
Course Launch Community Event
Hugging Face scheduled the release of Part 2 of its machine learning course for November 15th alongside a collaborative community event. While Part 1 covered text classification and Model Hub uploads, Part 2 expands into token classification, causal and masked language modeling, translation, summarization, question answering, and ecosystem tools like Datasets and Tokenizers. The event includes two days of technical talks from industry practitioners covering transfer learning, ethics in machine learning development, and workflows across Keras, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. Participants collaborate on team projects to fine-tune natural language processing models and develop interactive portfolio demos, with AWS supplying complimentary compute through Amazon SageMaker. Attendees who successfully complete and demonstrate a project receive a certificate of completion.
Train a Sentence Embedding Model with 1B Training Pairs
Sentence embeddings map sentences into dense vectors to capture semantic meaning for downstream tasks such as clustering, asymmetric question answering, and text search. To train general-purpose models at scale, the team utilized a dataset compiled from multiple sources containing up to one billion sentence pairs. Training leveraged contrastive learning with Multiple Negative Ranking Loss and in-batch negatives, running across seven TPU v3-8 accelerators with JAX and Flax. Batches combined samples from at least two datasets to balance hard negatives within topics against broader cross-topic semantic structure. The project resulted in twenty trained models—including variants of RoBERTa, DistilBERT, and MPNet—alongside eight specialized evaluation datasets and an interactive demo covering sentence similarity, search, and gender bias.
Hacktoberfest Hackathon Winners 2021
The organizers of the second open-source Hacktoberfest Hackathon announced the top ten projects across five distinct categories, selecting a winner and runner-up for each. Awarded projects include Pickle, a privacy-focused developer analytics service featuring realtime event synchronization, and CourseBuddy, a collaborative study platform for students. Other winning entries encompass the Feedback widget for sentiment collection, a utility management Flutter application, and Spookd, a Halloween-themed game built with Framer and connected to Supabase. Runner-up projects feature tools such as og:supa for generating Open Graph preview images, Relm for community management, Party Parrot as a Service, the TLWR path logger for Flutter, and the uwudaily mood-logging website. All winners receive custom gold medal shirts, runners-up receive silver medal shirts, and every participant receives a limited-edition participation tee.
Supabase Beta Sept 2021
The September 2021 beta update for Supabase outlines several product enhancements, documentation revamps, and community milestones. Developers using the JavaScript library can now leverage AbortController support to cancel long-running queries. Multiple PostgreSQL capabilities have been surfaced directly within the Supabase Dashboard, allowing users to apply custom column types, configure unique constraints on tables, view and edit columns in bulk, and manage table relationships spanning multiple schemas. In addition, the authentication documentation has been restructured into dedicated sections for Authentication and Authorization alongside an accompanying deep dive series. The update also marks two years since the initial commit to the Realtime Postgres engine, details upcoming events such as a Hacktoberfest hackathon, and announces open hiring for Site Reliability Engineers.
Supabase Hacktoberfest Hackathon 2021
Supabase announced its virtual open-source hackathon tied to Hacktoberfest 2021, running from October 1st to October 10th. Participants can compete individually or in teams of up to five to build a new open-source project with Supabase or contribute to designated community repositories. Submissions may use any programming language or framework but must be created during the event and made open source with a public code repository. Entries are evaluated on criteria including technical complexity, visual polish, functionality, and Supabase feature adoption across five award categories. Winners and runners-up receive limited edition Supabase swag, while participants retain full intellectual property rights over their submissions.
Summer at Hugging Face
Hugging Face released several major updates across its ecosystem, expanding its public Hub repository to over 16,000 models. Platform additions include Spaces for deploying Gradio and Streamlit demo applications, automatic TensorBoard instances, and evaluation metric tracking integrated with Papers With Code leaderboards. The Transformers library gained JAX/Flax support across more than 5,000 models, improved TensorFlow implementations, and introduced the transformers.onnx export module for model conversion. In research, the BigScience project completed large-scale training of a 13-billion-parameter English decoder model on Jean Zay, while the DeDLOC method enabled training the sahajBERT Bengali model without HPC infrastructure. Accepted conference papers detailed the Datasets library, prompt data-point equivalence, prompt-based fine-tuning heuristics, and block pruning techniques that reduced BERT size by 74 percent.
Hugging Face and Graphcore partner for IPU-optimized Transformers
Hugging Face launched its Hardware Partner Program at the 2021 AI Hardware Summit to offer device-optimized models and software integrations. As a founding member of the program, Graphcore collaborated with Hugging Face to optimize Transformer models for its Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU). Graphcore IPUs use a massively parallel MIMD architecture with on-die ultra-high bandwidth memory designed for AI workloads featuring fine-grained parallelism, low precision arithmetic, and sparsity. Through Hugging Face's open-source Optimum toolkit, developers will receive plug-and-play access to certified, hardware-optimized models across vision, speech, translation, and text generation. Graphcore's Poplar SDK integrates with PyTorch, TensorFlow, Docker, and Kubernetes, simplifying the process of porting workloads to IPU-POD datacenter compute systems.
Introducing Optimum: The Optimization Toolkit for Transformers at Scale
Running Transformer models fast and efficiently at production scale presents a significant challenge due to the complex compatibility between model architectures, acceleration techniques like quantization or sparsity, and specific silicon hardware features. Hugging Face introduced Optimum, an open-source library built to abstract hardware acceleration complexity and optimize training and inference on target devices through direct collaborations with hardware partners. Using quantization as a primary example, engineering teams often struggle with eager-mode model graph modifications, kernel compatibility checks, calibration parameter tuning, and acceptable accuracy loss trade-offs. Optimum addresses these challenges by integrating tools such as Intel Neural Compressor, which supports post-training quantization, quantization-aware training, and dynamic quantization driven by user-defined YAML configurations. Through these hardware-tailored integrations, the library aims to democratize production performance and reduce the aggregate energy consumed by machine learning workloads.
Supabase Beta August 2021
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.
Notion Acquires Automate.io for Enhanced Automation & Integration | Notion
Notion announced that it is acquiring Automate.io to strengthen its strategy of connecting Notion with the other tools and systems used in everyday work. Automate.io had spent five years building connectivity and integrations for more than 200 software tools, and Notion says the acquisition will support high-quality native integrations for teams and businesses as well as features for developers building on Notion. The company plans to continue working with platform partners including Zapier and IFTTT after launching its API earlier in the year, while expanding access to workflows and integrations. The deal also makes Hyderabad, India, Notion’s fifth office and its first engineering centre outside the United States, with plans to grow a technical team there over several years.
Fly.io Is Hiring Full-Stack Developers
Fly.io is seeking early-to-mid-level full-stack developers to work on customer-facing parts of its global application-hosting product. The role sits in a CLI-first organization whose UX stack combines Rails, GraphQL, and Go, with more Elixir and Phoenix planned, while the broader platform uses Rust and Go. Candidates are not expected to be Rails or Elixir experts; the stated bar is the ability to learn unfamiliar code and produce work that holds up, including deploying an application end to end and building browser UI components. Hiring centers on untimed work-sample challenges based on the team’s actual work rather than resume screening, interview gauntlets, or gotchas. The remote full-time role offers US healthcare, flexible vacation, hardware and phone allowances, and $120k–$140k plus equity.
Supabase Beta July 2021
Supabase concluded July 2021 with its second Launch Week event, delivering daily product updates and infrastructure upgrades across its platform. Authentication features expanded to support SMS logins through Twilio, Twitch authentication, and API endpoints for generating custom email authentication links. Storage capabilities were upgraded to include media streaming, public buckets, directory uploads, and speed improvements, alongside dashboard enhancements for usage statistics and database insights. Furthermore, all newly created Supabase projects now run PostgreSQL 13.3 by default, and instances incorporate the updated PostgREST version 8.0 server to generate CRUD APIs. The release also introduced preliminary components for Supabase functions as development continues toward general availability.
Open Source Hackathon Winners
Supabase announced the winners and runners-up for its inaugural open-source hackathon after concluding deliberations across a larger-than-expected pool of entries. Top entries included Work From, an employee schedule tracking application, and Fireplace, a video streaming platform that leverages Supabase Storage to synchronize playback events across multiple viewers. Additional recognized projects encompassed Feature.so for modular application component management, Flutter Add-ons for telemetry and crash reporting, and Peckish Peach, which uses machine learning to generate recipes from input ingredients. All submitted projects remain fully open source for community inspection, contribution, and forking. Gold and silver prize winners receive custom limited-edition Supabase apparel, while every hackathon participant receives a participation prize.
The Supabase Hackathon
Following the conclusion of Launch Week II: The SQL, Supabase announced its first week-long hackathon running from July 30 to August 6, 2021. Participants can enter individually or in teams of up to five to build any open-source tool, library, or application using Supabase. The judging criteria evaluate creativity, visual appeal, technical execution, and the integration of Supabase features across five distinct prize categories. All code and design elements must be created during the event and submitted via a repository link prior to the deadline. Winning teams receive limited edition Olympic gold and silver themed shirts while retaining full ownership of their intellectual property.
Updates for Supabase Functions
Supabase has announced an Alpha release of Database Webhooks alongside dashboard management tools for native PostgreSQL Functions and Triggers. Database Webhooks act as a wrapper around PostgreSQL triggers, asynchronously emitting HTTP GET and POST requests whenever table data is inserted, updated, or deleted. The networking layer relies on a new PostgreSQL extension called pg_net, which pairs a PostgreSQL background worker queue with libcurl to handle multiple concurrent outbound requests without blocking SQL queries. Although pg_net currently processes over 300 requests per second, Supabase plans to expand capabilities to include direct triggers for AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Run before launching dedicated Supabase Functions.
Supabase Swag Store
Supabase has officially launched the Supabase Swag Store to meet ongoing community demand for branded merchandise. The company built the online storefront using Shopify to go live quickly during launch week rather than dogfooding internal systems for e-commerce. Gifting remains the primary goal of the swag program, prioritizing contributors who create content, report bugs, answer community questions, or submit pull requests. All items are designed, packed, and dispatched directly by the internal team from Singapore in limited production batches of around one hundred items per run. Due to hands-on fulfillment and ongoing international shipping disruptions, inventory is scarce, and some small-batch designs will remain permanently limited editions.
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