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by jfvinueza 1508 days ago
Congratulations to all!

Have used Supabase in several applications; it's an amazing product. And what I'm the most grateful about it is that I came to it as a self-taught front end dev, and it taught me the beauty and power of the relational database itself. Trends and technologies will come and go, but the heart of a software project, as I understood it, will usually lie in its data model. I was intimidated by it, and then, after Supabase, I was not.

Now, I'm especially hyped on on the realtime capabilities showcased in multiplayer.dev: in a recent project we had to implement a chat service quite quickly, an although through supabase we already had an elixir server set up and working, it still revolves around postgres replication, which didn't really felt right and did imposed some limitations. This led us to use Centrifugal, a oss go microservice, which has worked great... but it felt a bit like a missed opportunity. I didn't found any Elixir based rt-as-a-service product, and it looks like you guys are in a great position to tackle that space. So there's that.

Anyways, good luck and thanks again for your hard work!!

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Supabase dev and one of the creators of multiplayer.dev here!

> This led us to use Centrifugal, a oss go microservice, which has worked great

Thanks for sharing this! Will definitely take a look at their offering.

> I didn't found any Elixir based rt-as-a-service product, and it looks like you guys are in a great position to tackle that space.

That's exactly right!

Thank you so much for the kind words!