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title: "Serverless"
description: "102 posts about Serverless, summarised, each linking to the original."
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# Serverless
> 102 posts about Serverless, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [Storing OpenAI embeddings in Postgres with pgvector](https://yomu.fyi/post/storing-openai-embeddings-in-postgres-with-pgvector.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: gregnr
- Published: Feb 6, 2023
- Type: Tutorial

Post describes how embeddings represent semantic relatedness as vectors and how OpenAI’s text-embedding-ada-002 model produces 1536-dimensional embeddings for text. It addresses storing and searching large or dynamically changing collections that may not fit comfortably in memory, using PostgreSQL and the pgvector extension instead of a small CSV-and-NumPy workflow. The implementation enables the vector extension, creates a documents table with a vector(1536) column, and defines match\_documents() with cosine distance, thresholds, counts, and ordering. It also shows JavaScript code for generating embeddings, a search flow that retrieves matching documents for prompt context, and token limiting before a completion request, while noting that documents can be chunked. For larger tables, the post recommends an ivfflat index with vector\_cosine\_ops and gives 4 \* sqrt(table\_rows) as a starting point for lists.


### [Supabase Beta December 2022](https://yomu.fyi/post/supabase-beta-december-2022.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: ant\_wilson
- Published: Jan 5, 2023
- Type: Announcement

Supabase's December 2022 beta update recaps Launch Week 6, Community Day, Postgres ecosystem work, and other recent releases. The announcements include redesigned documentation rebuilt with Next.js; Storage v2 features for image resizing, webhooks, and a Smart CDN; and multi-factor authentication with optional enforcement through Row Level Security. Supabase Wrappers extend PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrappers to query external databases, systems, and third-party APIs using SQL, while The Vault enters beta for encrypted secrets and stored data. The update also announces custom domains, point-in-time recovery, SSO on the dashboard in preparation for SAML, and ecosystem projects including pg\_graphql v1.0, a PostgREST 11 pre-release, and an experimental pg\_crdt extension.


### [Launch Week 6 Hackathon Winners](https://yomu.fyi/post/launch-week-6-hackathon-winners.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: andrew\_smith,tyler\_shukert
- Published: Jan 3, 2023
- Type: Announcement

Supabase announced the winners of its sixth hackathon, held during Launch Week 6 after ending 2022 with many feature releases. Projects were judged across categories including Best Overall, Most Fun/Interesting, Best Flutter, Best Storage, and Best Edge Functions, with Deno participating in judging the edge category. Depulso, a CLI and web app for static site deployments with per-deployment .depulso.site subdomains and SSL, won Best Overall, while Supa SQL App was runner-up for converting human language into SQL queries. Other winners included HTTP Sense, a reverse proxy and network monitoring tool; supaquiz, a realtime multiplayer trivia game; Lookout, a metadata-based image discovery app; and Vista, a video transcoder that adds customizable subtitles from audio. Winners received keyboards or swag, and a Discord event was scheduled for January 5 at 7:00 AM PST.


### [Automatically Rotating GitHub Tokens (So You Don’t Have To)](https://yomu.fyi/post/automatically-rotating-github-tokens-so-you-don-t-have-to.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: 2023-10-18
- Published: Dec 20, 2022
- Type: Problem & solution

Shopify needed automated GitHub workflows that could clone from private repositories, update organization-level projects, and trigger downstream workflows but could not use GITHUB\_TOKEN. Personal access tokens supplied those capabilities, yet introduced developer churn, user-attributed actions, and no organization-enforced rotation or expiry. The proposed system uses GitHub Actions and a GitHub App to generate repository secrets that rotate automatically while preserving PAT-like references in existing workflows. Its serverless design delegates scheduling, managed infrastructure, approvals, secret management, auditing, and break-glass operation to GitHub, while a custom TypeScript action encrypts and writes generated secrets. Prototyping exposed that parallel one-second jobs could accrue multiple billable minutes, prompting sequential execution in a consolidated workflow; the stated goal is improved resilience to developer churn and reduced leaked-secret blast radius.


### [Supabase Beta November 2022](https://yomu.fyi/post/supabase-beta-november-2022.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: ant\_wilson
- Published: Dec 7, 2022
- Type: Announcement

Supabase’s November 2022 update previews Launch Week 6 while reporting a smaller set of product releases and community activity. Remix Auth Helpers are now available for server-side authentication, updated for supabase-js V2 and usable with TypeScript; the post also introduces the Edgy Edge Functions YouTube series and three examples covering OG image generation, Oak API servers, and Puppeteer screenshots. Product fixes address auth.signOut cookies and session removal, magic links can be customized with {{ .TokenHash }}, functions support redirects, and Supabase can be installed through Conda. The update also announces a Fireship course building a Reddit-inspired app with Supabase, PostgreSQL, and React, alongside a broad list of community resources and projects.


### [Supabase Beta October 2022](https://yomu.fyi/post/supabase-beta-october-2022.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: ant\_wilson
- Published: Nov 2, 2022
- Type: Announcement

Supabase’s October 2022 update reports a broad set of product, documentation, and community releases, while announcing that Launch Week 6 will run from December 12–16. The new supabase-js v2 and supabase-flutter v1 SDKs reached full release, alongside a revamped Next.js quickstart with pre-built Auth UI and Auth Helpers and a Next.js 13 example for fetching and caching data from the Serverless API. Documentation covers Supabase Auth’s server-side rendering flow, and a database-testing framework uses pgTAP and pg\_prove; Edge Functions also gained support for GET, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE requests. Additional changes include functions support in supabase-py, session refreshing, provider refresh tokens, request-location detection through X-Forwarded-For, expanded logging, and storage downloads via a query parameter, alongside three featured community apps and hiring announcements.


### [Mixing It Up: Remix Joins Shopify to Push the Web Forward](https://yomu.fyi/post/mixing-it-up-remix-joins-shopify-to-push-the-web-forward.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: 2023-10-18
- Published: Oct 31, 2022
- Type: Announcement

Shopify announces that the open-source web framework Remix and its team are joining the company to help developers deliver lightning-fast, resilient web experiences. Remix combines multi-page and single-page strengths through a full-stack React framework with data loading and code splitting handled without requiring front-end developers to manage those backend tasks. It also emphasizes progressive enhancement, with links, buttons, and forms working before JavaScript loads, and supports edge, service-worker, and Node runtimes. Shopify will use Remix across projects including Hydrogen; Hydrogen is moving from server components to Remix's data-loading pattern for faster performance and a simpler developer experience, with ~90% of developers' code expected to remain unchanged. Remix will remain independent and open-source while Shopify supports its roadmap and community.


### [How We Built Oxygen: Hydrogen’s Counterpart for Hosting Custom Storefronts](https://yomu.fyi/post/how-we-built-oxygen-hydrogen-s-counterpart-for-hosting-custom-storefro.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: 2023-10-18
- Published: Aug 23, 2022
- Type: Explainer

Oxygen is Shopify’s hosting counterpart for Hydrogen custom storefronts, designed to provide globally available, fast storefronts with secure Shopify integration without additional third-party hosting costs. Its architecture combines GitHub and GitHub Actions with Cloudflare Workers and edge distribution, Shopify CDN, Admin API, Identity and Access Management, and Oxygen-scoped developer tooling and observability. Requests pass through a Gateway Worker, which validates authorization for the shop and storefront version before using Cloudflare’s Dynamic Dispatch API to route traffic to a Storefront Worker running Hydrogen code. Rather than build proprietary infrastructure, Shopify reused Cloudflare’s worker platform to reduce upfront complexity, scale, and security risks, while its observability stack uses Grafana, Cortex, Loki, and Tempo. Oxygen is used in production by Allbirds, Shopify Supply, Shopify Hardware, and Denim Tears, and is generally available to Plus merchants.


### [The Serverless Server](https://yomu.fyi/post/the-serverless-server.md)
- Company: [Fly.io](https://yomu.fyi/company/fly-io.md)
- Published: Jun 30, 2022
- Type: Explainer

The post explains what “serverless” means by reconstructing the machinery beneath a Lambda-like platform. It starts with bare-metal x86 servers, a Type 1 hypervisor, and services for placement, VM management, request forwarding, and function execution; dedicated customer workers, shared warm pools, rate limits, and container-style isolation address multitenancy, cold starts, and bursty demand. The runtime design uses object storage for function code, chroot, privilege dropping, namespaces, seccomp, cgroups, and freezing to constrain idle instances and workloads. Its limits on initialization, invocation duration, and idle lifecycles support migration away from unhealthy instances but disadvantage applications with expensive startup, dynamic local caches, or uncertain response times.


### [Supabase Beta May 2022](https://yomu.fyi/post/supabase-beta-may-2022.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Ant Wilson
- Published: Jun 1, 2022
- Type: Announcement

Supabase announced several platform updates and performance improvements across its database, hosting, and developer tooling ecosystem for May 2022. Developers managing preview deployments on Jamstack platforms like Vercel and Netlify can now configure wildcard redirect domains such as \*.mydomain.com/welcome. For serverless workflows, Edge Functions support a -no-verify-jwt CLI deployment flag to facilitate direct invocation via external webhooks without mandatory token validation. In addition, Supabase exposed a Prometheus-compatible metrics endpoint to all users for real-time project monitoring and alerting. Database security policies also gained a dedicated Target roles configuration, replacing older role check expressions and cutting query execution time from 46 seconds to 7 milliseconds in one customer deployment.


### [Works With Supabase - announcing our Partner Gallery](https://yomu.fyi/post/works-with-supabase-announcing-our-partner-gallery.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Alaister Young, Shane Rice, Thor Schaeff
- Published: Apr 20, 2022
- Type: Announcement

Supabase launched its Partner Gallery to showcase integration partners and certified expert agencies assisting developers on the platform. The open-source gallery is built using the Supabase stack, featuring Postgres Full Text Search, next-image with Supabase Storage, and email triggers via Supabase Edge Functions. Initial agency partners include Morrow, a UK app development agency specializing in React Native and Supabase, alongside Quinence, a Singapore-based product development studio. Integrated tooling covers authentication systems like Clerk and Stytch, database and developer utilities like Prisma, Snaplet, Vercel, and pgMustard, and low-code builders including Appsmith, Draftbit, Plasmic, and Teta. These ecosystem integrations allow developers to manage Postgres workflows, secure user authorization, and build applications across web and mobile platforms.


### [Bring the Func Hackathon Winners 2022](https://yomu.fyi/post/bring-the-func-hackathon-winners-2022.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Thor Schaeff
- Published: Apr 18, 2022
- Type: Announcement

Supabase announced the winners and runners-up of the 2022 Bring the Func Hackathon following their recent launch week. The event featured multiple project categories, showcasing applications built by community developers with Supabase tools. In the main showcase, mintbaseXsupabase won for an Instagram-like NFT browsing platform, while Pgm Dictionary served as runner-up with an UrbanDictionary clone built on Next.js, Mantine, and Supabase. The Edge Functions category highlighted Wen NFT for managing NFT community access and runner-up DocuPool for token-unlocked document sharing. Finally, AbileneX won the Most Fun or Visually Pleasing category for gathering feedback on ideas, alongside project management tool Kardow as runner-up.


### [Hackathon: Bring the Func(🕺)](https://yomu.fyi/post/hackathon-bring-the-func.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Thor Schaeff
- Published: Apr 1, 2022
- Type: Announcement

Following the conclusion of its fourth Launch Week, Supabase announced the ten-day community hackathon titled Bring the Func, running through April 10th. The competition highlights newly released platform capabilities, establishing primary prize tracks dedicated to Supabase Edge Functions and GraphQL projects powered by pg\_graphql. Participants can compete individually or in teams of up to five people, provided all design and code assets are built during the event and published as open-source repositories. Submissions require linking a repository detailing architecture, hosted demos, and Supabase feature usage across storage, authentication, realtime, or database access layers. Alongside category prizes and community swag, Supabase partnered with the Future Forest Company to plant a tree and issue a certificate for every completed project entry.


### [Edge Functions are now available in Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/post/edge-functions-are-now-available-in-supabase.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Inian Parameshwaran
- Published: Mar 31, 2022
- Type: Announcement

Supabase launched Edge Functions to execute TypeScript code close to end-users across more than 30 data centers. Built on the secure-by-default Deno runtime and hosted via Deno Deploy, the feature offers fast start-ups, scale-to-zero pricing, and native support for npm modules and Node built-in APIs. Incoming requests first reach an API gateway called Relay, which authenticates JSON Web Tokens, handles rate-limiting, and forwards requests using a Deployment ID to Deno Deploy. Observability is handled through Logflare to feed structured logs and metrics directly into the Supabase Dashboard. To mitigate abuse risks experienced during earlier product rollouts, invocations are currently limited to POST requests rather than general website hosting.


### [Supabase Launch Week 4](https://yomu.fyi/post/supabase-launch-week-4.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Paul Copplestone
- Published: Mar 25, 2022
- Type: Announcement

Supabase announced the schedule and lineup for Launch Week 4, detailing daily product releases and events starting on March 28, 2022. The week initiated with Community Day to highlight community contributions and open-source tooling utilized across the platform. Technical additions across the week included the introduction of GraphQL data fetching for PostgreSQL databases, the rollout of Supabase Enterprise, and the launch of Edge Functions. Final announcements on April 1 revealed Supabrew alongside Supabase Realtime with multiplayer features, concluding with the start of a ten-day virtual hackathon running through April 9. For the hackathon, titled Bring the Func, Supabase partnered with the Future Forest Company to plant a tree for every submitted project on madewithsupabase.com.


### [Building Blocks of High Performance Hydrogen-powered Storefronts](https://yomu.fyi/post/building-blocks-of-high-performance-hydrogen-powered-storefronts.md)
- Company: [Shopify](https://yomu.fyi/company/shopify.md)
- Author: 2023-10-18
- Published: Nov 8, 2021
- Type: Explainer

Hydrogen is a React-based framework for custom Shopify storefronts, designed to balance fast loading, personalized and dynamic commerce, and developer experience. The central trade-off is that static generation and edge delivery can speed loading but defer personalization, while conventional server-side rendering can slow time-to-first-byte as data is fetched. Hydrogen addresses this with React 18 alpha streaming SSR powered by Suspense, which streams the page shell before data resolves and progressively hydrates components without extra client round trips. React Server Components keep server-only code out of bundles, support server-side data access, and enable component-level updates that preserve client state. Built-in fetching and configurable caching, including stale-while-revalidate, work with Oxygen’s colocated runtime, while developers can mix server rendering, client fetching, and edge delivery at page or component level.


### [Updates for Supabase Functions](https://yomu.fyi/post/updates-for-supabase-functions.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Paul Copplestone
- Published: Jul 30, 2021
- Type: Announcement

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.


### [Mobbin uses Supabase to authenticate 200,000 users](https://yomu.fyi/post/mobbin-uses-supabase-to-authenticate-200-000-users.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Published: Jul 28, 2021
- Type: Problem & solution

Mobbin originally launched its mobile design search platform using Firebase, quickly growing to hundreds of thousands of registered users. As the platform scaled, the team faced user friction because Firebase Authentication did not merge accounts sharing the same email address across different providers. Furthermore, mutative Firebase Function failures threatened document data integrity, and multi-round-trip document queries drove high monthly costs across five million API requests. To resolve these challenges, Mobbin migrated its backend to Supabase, adopting its GoTrue authentication service and underlying Postgres relational database. This migration resolved authentication conflicts, safeguarded data consistency, and reduced monthly infrastructure expenses since Supabase does not charge on a per-API-request basis.


### [PgBouncer is now available in Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/post/pgbouncer-is-now-available-in-supabase.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Angelico de los Reyes
- Published: Apr 2, 2021
- Type: Announcement

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.


### [Workflows are coming to Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/post/workflows-are-coming-to-supabase.md)
- Company: [Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase.md)
- Author: Francesco Ceccon
- Published: Apr 2, 2021
- Type: Announcement

Supabase is developing Workflows, an Elixir-based orchestration engine designed to coordinate complex serverless tasks and event-driven logic. Standard serverless and database-triggered functions often struggle with delayed execution and queuing without external cron processes. To solve this with native Postgres integration, the new engine adopts the open-source Amazon States Language specification to orchestrate functions across platforms including AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenFaaS, and Postgres itself. Execution states, jobs, queues, and logs are deeply integrated with Postgres using the Oban job processing library, though transient in-memory workers are also supported. The engine responds directly to HTTP calls or database change events delivered through Supabase Realtime.


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