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by kiwicopple 2214 days ago
Realtime is definitely our strongest feature so right now. We started Supabase to solve a problem at our previous startup, where we built a chat application using Firebase. Within a few months we discovered our customers were receiving their chats out-of-order and it took another few more days to figure out it was due to some Firebase quirks.

We migrated to Postgres and started with Triggers/NOTIFY. But that also has some limitations (8000 byte payload limit), so we implemented the Elixir server: https://github.com/supabase/realtime