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Supabase Reports and Metrics
Supabase introduced a dedicated Reports section and updated project home pages to deliver observability across hosted Postgres projects and complementary services. Because developers can run unconstrained database queries and custom workloads, monitoring both project-level service usage and underlying infrastructure metrics is essential. The new dashboard displays one month of historical data, including CPU and memory usage alongside request volumes for Database, Auth, and Storage APIs. To collect metrics across hundreds of thousands of targets without high latency, Supabase implemented a federated monitoring architecture running regional Prometheus instances that scrape local exporters and aggregate subsets into a central VictoriaMetrics instance. All project databases now also launch with the pg_stat_statements extension enabled for future query statistics.
Supabase Auth v2: Phone Auth now available
Supabase has released an update to its authentication server, a fork of Netlify's GoTrue, introducing phone-based authentication with SMS one-time passwords. Developers can now configure Twilio credentials in the Supabase Dashboard to support passwordless SMS logins or combine phone numbers with passwords for user authentication. The release also expands third-party login options by adding Twitch alongside existing integrations, bringing the total number of supported OAuth providers to ten. To assist teams needing dynamic or internationalized messaging, a new API endpoint exposed through supabase-js allows backend services using admin keys to generate confirmation, recovery, invite, and magic links directly. These features build on Supabase Auth's architecture, which stores credentials directly in PostgreSQL databases to enable granular Row Level Security policies across database tables and storage buckets.
Supabase Storage now in Beta
Supabase released Storage Beta with several functional and architectural improvements three months after its alpha launch. The storage service now supports the Content-Range HTTP header for streaming audio and video, alongside entirely public buckets configured with dashboard safeguards and standard authorization policies. Directory uploads are enabled via the File and Directory entries API, while self-hosted instances can use a new local filesystem backend rather than requiring AWS S3 configuration. To support Node.js without adding polyfills or bundling complexity, the storage server was updated to accept binary data and streams directly. Additionally, the dashboard storage explorer simulates filesystem directories using hidden placeholder files and implements list virtualization.
FYI: Phoenix drops webpack and npm for esbuild
Phoenix is replacing its use of Node, npm, and webpack with esbuild, a Go-written JavaScript bundler, in the upcoming Phoenix 1.6 release. The change responds to support burden and reliability problems: the post says npm, webpack, or brunch were involved in roughly 30% of Phoenix’s reported issues, while node-sass and npm v7 had recently broken phx.new. esbuild compiles to native code, handles common asset-pipeline tasks, and is intended to provide newcomers with a seamless setup and long-term users with more reproducible JavaScript and CSS builds. Teams doing substantial frontend JavaScript can still use customized webpack or other tooling, while esbuild remains an opt-in path for complex client-side work. Existing projects can use Phoenix 1.6, although the post notes possible zombie processes and says migration snags remain to be assessed.
Supabase Community Day
Supabase announced a series of platform upgrades and open-source contributions centered around PostgreSQL and its broader tooling ecosystem. Every new project on the platform now deploys on PostgreSQL version 13.3, accompanied by marketplace images on Digital Ocean and AWS. PostgREST version 8.0 incorporates upstreamed performance enhancements, achieving up to 50% more throughput on GET requests by adopting prepared statements for SELECT queries and decreasing log verbosity. The release eliminates downtime during schema cache reloads and replaces the pg_listen requirement with standard NOTIFY commands for dynamic in-database configuration updates. Additionally, community-led efforts introduced beta releases of Flutter and Dart client libraries alongside a dedicated Discord server for developer discussions.
Supabase is now on Postgres 13.3
New Supabase projects now run on Supabase Postgres 13.3, transitioning the database platform forward from PostgreSQL 12.0. This release introduces features such as native UUID generation with gen_random_uuid, parallel index vacuuming, incremental sorting, smaller btree indexes, and extended statistics improvements. The underlying PostgreSQL binary was built from the ground up to enable Large System Extensions on AWS Graviton2 ARM instances, optimizing locking and synchronization performance. Alongside upgrading the underlying operating system to Ubuntu 20.04 for long-term support through 2025, the team integrated fail2ban to protect direct database connections on ports 5432 and 6543 against brute-force attacks. Finally, Supabase Postgres version numbering now mirrors upstream PostgreSQL major and minor versions to make tracking installed releases easier.
Supabase Launch Week II: The SQL
Supabase scheduled Launch Week II: The SQL for the week of Monday 26 July 2021, occurring four months after its initial launch week held in March. The five-day schedule opens by spotlighting the latest developments from the community alongside core ecosystem tools including Postgres and PostgREST. Tuesday introduces Storage Reloaded, representing four months of further engineering work following the Version 1 storage release. Wednesday focuses on authentication capabilities, specifically passwordless login features that build upon existing platform support for eight distinct OAuth providers. The week concludes with platform dashboard improvements alongside announcements regarding Supabase Functions updates, a community hackathon, and the official Supabase Swag Store.
Welcome spaCy to the Hugging Face Hub
Hugging Face has integrated spaCy pipelines into the Hugging Face Hub to simplify the distribution, testing, and deployment of natural language processing models across the community. More than 60 canonical models from the spaCy 3.1 release are hosted in the spaCy organization, alongside discoverable community pipelines. Users can package and upload models directly through the command line using the spacy-huggingface-hub extension, which auto-generates required metadata and model cards. Hosted pipelines offer direct pip installation from live wheel URLs, interactive browser exploration, and production-ready HTTP endpoints through the Inference API. The platform provides immediate interactive widget support for named entity recognition components, with upcoming support planned for text classification and part-of-speech tagging pipelines.
Deploy Hugging Face models easily with Amazon SageMaker
Hugging Face and Amazon introduced an inference solution integrating Hugging Face Transformers with Amazon SageMaker. The SageMaker Hugging Face Inference Toolkit and specialized Deep Learning Containers enable deployment of trained models or publicly available Hub models to managed production endpoints. Users configure endpoints with minimal code using the SageMaker Python SDK, standard pipelines, or custom inference scripts that override default behaviors. The architecture supports models stored in Amazon S3 as well as direct references via HF_MODEL_ID and HF_TASK environment variables. Deployments benefit from native AWS infrastructure features, including built-in monitoring, Identity and Access Management permission controls, and Virtual Private Cloud connectivity.
FYI: Livebook 0.2 with Kino
Livebook 0.2 was released with Kino, a client-side-focused feature for animating data changes, alongside new input support and the data_table feature. Elixir cells can read input values with IO.gets("input name: "), although those values arrive as strings and may require parsing or other processing. data_table presents data in a table with pagination and sorting, while Livebook is positioned for teaching Elixir, documenting libraries, experimenting with Nerves and embedded hardware, and connecting to a live production system. The post also notes that ElixirConfEU and ElixirConf US 2021 were announced as hybrid or mixed-format events, with ElixirConfEU scheduled for September 9–10 and ElixirConf US for October 12–15 across physical and online sessions.
Sentence Transformers in the Hugging Face Hub
Sentence Transformers has collaborated with the Hugging Face Hub as part of its v2 release to make sentence, paragraph, and image embedding models readily accessible. The Hub now hosts over 90 pretrained models supporting more than 100 languages for use cases like semantic search and multilingual zero-shot classification. Alongside direct model loading in minimal code, the platform provides interactive Hub widgets for feature extraction and sentence similarity computation. Developers can execute inference programmatically through Inference API endpoints. Additionally, the library supports direct model uploading to the Hub via save_to_hub, which automatically generates a model card detailing layer architecture and dual usage with Sentence Transformers and Transformers.
Supabase Beta May 2021
Supabase published its May 2021 beta updates covering authentication, regional infrastructure, and tooling. Developers can now implement Apple and Twitter authentication via Supabase Auth, addressing App Store requirements and expanding third-party login options. The platform introduced a Policy Editor with templates to configure Row Level Security for Storage, alongside CSV data retrieval capabilities. Infrastructure expanded with a new Tokyo region to support developers in Japan and China, while Supabase Grid was publicly released as part of an effort to open-source the dashboard. Additionally, community contributors advanced client libraries, completing postgrest-go and progressing development on Swift libraries including gotrue-swift, realtime-swift, and storage-swift.
Supabase Beta June 2021
Supabase announced a series of platform updates, documentation additions, and tooling enhancements for June 2021 ahead of its scheduled Launch Week. Developers can now provision a Postgres database directly through a new Vercel integration and enable authentication using Discord logins. Supabase Storage added support for upsert operations alongside public buckets that allow unauthenticated file access. The web dashboard introduced a restart button for debugging and a table policy editor with templates to configure Row Level Security. Additional backend improvements include timestamps for PostgREST error logs, an OpenAPI mode patch ignoring anonymous privileges for Prisma users, and an XSS fix in the Auth0 Next.js library.
Shipit! Presents: How We Write React Native Apps
A May 19, 2021 Shipit! event brought together Colin Gray, Haris Mahmood, Guil Varandas, and Michelle Fernandez, developers setting Shopify’s React Native standards, to discuss writing performant apps. The Q&A covers accessibility and design guidance through Restyle and Polaris documentation; their responsive layouts avoid fixed sizing where possible and use breakpoints for fonts and spacing. They describe React Native state as the usual source of truth while native modules manage internal state and send updates through EventEmitter, with SQLite in Point of Sale as an exception that still has one source of truth. Jest handles unit and integration tests, Buildkite manages CI builds, nightly builds are automatically distributed to testers, and failing feature-branch tests block merges to main.
Using & Mixing Hugging Face Models with Gradio 2.0
The Hugging Face Model Hub hosts more than 10,000 user-submitted machine learning models spanning natural language processing, image classification, and audio processing. Machine learning developers increasingly need to demo models to interdisciplinary collaborators or non-programmers to uncover biases and failure points. The Gradio 2.0 library enables users to create graphical user interfaces and load almost any Hugging Face model using a single line of code. By default, these interfaces query Hugging Face's hosted Inference API without requiring an API key, though users can also run computations locally via the transformers library. Gradio interfaces can be customized through the Interface class and composed to load multiple models in parallel or chain them in series.
Supabase Beta April 2021
Supabase focused on platform stability, security enhancements, and community support during its April 2021 beta update cycle. To address visual accessibility needs for developers with astigmatisms or those operating in brightly lit environments, the team delivered Light Mode within the dashboard settings. The release also introduced OpenAPI-powered Storage API documentation, community translations for the main repository spanning nineteen distinct languages, and an experimental synchronization server connecting Postgres with Stripe. Dashboard components are systematically migrating into an open-source UI library, establishing necessary foundations for local development tooling and self-hosted environments. Additionally, the team reported substantial contributor growth across its realtime server and UI repositories while continuing engineering on a Workflows engine aimed at a July release.
Introducing 🤗 Accelerate
🤗 Accelerate enables PyTorch developers to execute raw training loops across CPUs, multi-GPU setups, and TPUs with minimal boilerplate modifications. Standard distributed training typically demands manual device assignments, DistributedSampler configurations, and divergent code paths that break single-device portability. By wrapping models, optimizers, and dataloaders through a unified prepare call, Accelerate automatically manages hardware placement, mixed precision operations, and sampler batch slicing without requiring custom distributed samplers. Distributed evaluation is streamlined using a gather utility that consolidates prediction tensors across active worker processes. Furthermore, a dedicated command-line interface provides an interactive questionnaire to store runtime configuration defaults and orchestrate local or AWS SageMaker runs.
Supabase Beta March 2021
Supabase announced a series of platform updates for March 2021, headlined by the launch of Supabase Storage and new local development capabilities. The new storage offering integrates an open-source Fastify and TypeScript API backed by S3, while direct database connections now bundle PgBouncer for connection pooling. Developers can run the platform locally via the Supabase CLI, utilize Docker tooling for self-hosting, and access the open-sourced Supabase UI component library. Community contributions brought OAuth scopes to Supabase Auth for requesting elevated third-party provider permissions, alongside newly published free and pro pricing tiers. In addition, development is underway on an Elixir-based workflow engine compatible with the Amazon States Language for automated event handling.
Supabase Dot Com
Supabase announced a migration of its primary website from supabase.io to supabase.com over the upcoming week. User API endpoints will remain unchanged on supabase.co, requiring no configuration adjustments for active applications. The company originally selected supabase.io as a meme-inspired placeholder after releasing a Postgres Realtime engine on GitHub in 2019 and failing to find an available dot com name. Following advice from Y Combinator to secure a dot com address, the founders bypassed domain brokers charging percentage fees and negotiated directly with the domain owner, whose business address was located one hundred meters from the founder's home. The migration updates public website destinations while preserving existing developer infrastructure unaffected.
PgBouncer is now available in Supabase
Serverless JavaScript frameworks and developer tools frequently establish separate database connections during bursty traffic, rapidly exhausting PostgreSQL connection limits in the absence of traditional middleware. To resolve connection surges, Supabase integrated the open-source connection pooler PgBouncer directly onto the PostgreSQL server across all newly created projects. Rather than increasing the total number of connections PostgreSQL can open, PgBouncer recycles open connections and queues excess requests until active connections become available. Developers can manage pooling through the dashboard across Session, Transaction, and Statement modes, with Transaction mode recommended for serverless functions despite disabling session features like prepared statements. The default pool size is initially configured to 15 connections.
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