Supabase

Vibe coding has taken the tech industry by storm, and it's not just the Lovables and Replits of the world that are winning. The startups building the infrastructure behind them are cashing in too.  Supabase, the open-source database platform that's become the backend of choice for the vibe-coding world, raised $100 million at a $5 billion valuation just months after closing $200 million at $2 billion. But co-founder and CEO Paul Copplestone has a surprising strategy: he keeps turning down million-dollar enterprise contracts, betting instead that vibe coding will birth the next generation of companies.  Today on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Julie Bort sat down with Copplestone to explore Supabase's rise and what it means for the database race.  Listen to the full episode to hear about:  Why Copplestone believes "the death of Oracle won't take a generation"  The technical moonshots Supabase is funding to make Postgres even more scalable  How he decides which enterprise deals to turn down, and why it still "feels very painful"  Subscribe to Equity on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Copplestone

CEO and Co-founder

Supabase

Sugu Sougoumarane, creator of Vitess, comes off sabbatical to bring Vitess to Postgres. We discuss what motivated Sugu to come off sabbatical, why now is the time, the technical challenges of doing so, the implementation details of Multigres (Vitess for Postgres). We also discuss the state of Postgres at scale. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. CodeRabbit – AI-native code reviews, built for the modern dev stack. — CodeRabbit is your always-on code reviewer—flagging hallucinations, surfacing smells, and enforcing standards, all without leaving your IDE or GitHub PRs. Trusted by top teams to ship better code, faster. Start free at CodeRabbit.ai Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. Featuring: Sugu Sougoumarane – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Multigres Vitess Supabase Neon PlanetScale Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Sugu Sougoumarane

Creator of Vitess

SupabasePlanetScale

Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase (the meme-lord himself), joins the show to take us on the journey of Supabase leading Postgres for life, and how it all starts with Postgres as the base-layer substrate for the entire Supabase platform. They’re laser focused on the drive ahead, not the rear-view mirror. Disclosure: Adam and Jerod are angel investors in Supabase. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 5 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Code breaks, fix it faster. Don’t just observe. Take action. Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. 90,000+ growing teams use sentry to find problems fast. Use the code CHANGELOG when you sign up to get $100 OFF the team plan. 1Password – Build securely with 1Password - 1Password simplifies how you securely use, manage, and integrate developer credentials. Manage SSH keys and sign Git commits. Access secrets stored in 1Password. Automate administrative tasks. Integrate with third-party tools. Also, check out our INFRASTRUCTURE.md file for more details on how we do secrets with 1Password. Paragon – Ship native integrations to production in days with more than 130 pre-built connectors, or configure your own custom integrations. Built for product and engineering. Learn more at useparagon.com/changelog Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring: Paul Copplestone – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Supabase.com Changelog News #54: 🔥 Supabase quietly went public today “Build in a weekend, scale to millions” 29% of Y Combinator batch (W24) use Supabase Oriole joins Supabase We are moving to General Availability (April 2024) Changelog #476: Supabase is all in on Postgres How to Run Supabase Locally Supabase local development Changelog #590: Good timing makes great products Fly Postgres, managed by Supabase Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Paul Copplestone

CEO and Co-founder

Supabase

Scott and CJ chat with Paul Copplestone, CEO and co-founder of Supabase, about the journey of building an open source alternative to Firebase. Learn about the tech stack, the story behind their excellent documentation, and how Supabase balances business goals with open-source values. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:30 Who is Paul Copplestone? 01:17 Why ‘Supa’ and not ‘Super’? 02:26 How did Supabase start? 04:29 How long from inception to joining Y Combinator? 05:10 Was it always intended to be open source? Why Open Source. 07:22 How many users chose to self-host? 07:49 Open source mindset. 08:42 Simplicity in design. 10:32 How do you take Supabase one step beyond the competition? 12:35 How do you decide which libraries are officially supported vs community maintained? 15:17 You don’t need a client library! 16:48 Edge functions for server-side functionality. 18:51 The genesis of pgvector. 20:59 The product strategy. 22:25 What’s the story behind Supabase’s awesome docs? 25:26 The tech behind Supabase. 25:39 What is the UI built on? 27:33 Consolidation follows kaizen. 28:54 What else is involved in the stack? 31:47 Authentication. 32:35 Storage engine. 33:13 For self-hosting. 35:46 How do you balance business goals with open source? 42:01 What’s next for Supabase? 44:15 Supabase’s GA + new features. Top 10 LAunches from Supabase GA Week. 48:24 Who runs the X account? 50:39 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs. Sick Picks Paul: Apple Vision Pro. Shameless Plugs Paul: PostgreSQL. Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads CJ: X Instagram YouTube TwitchTV Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

Paul Copplestone

CEO and Co-founder

Supabase

This week Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase joined us to catch us up on the next big thing happening in the world of Postgres. Supabase might be best known as “the open source Firebase alternative,” a tagline they might be reluctant to maintain. But from Adam’s perspective, he’s never been more excited about what they’re bringing to market for Postgres fans. In the last year, Supabase has gone from 0 to more than 80,000 databases on their platform — and they’re still in beta…and it’s open source. Hopefully today’s show sheds some light on why everyone is talking about Supabase. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Sentry – Working code means happy customers. That’s exactly why teams choose Sentry. From error tracking to performance monitoring, Sentry helps teams see what actually matters, resolve problems quicker, and learn continuously about their applications - from the frontend to the backend. Use the code CHANGELOG and get the team plan free for three months. FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Try FireHydrant free for 14 days at firehydrant.io Subspace – Network-as-a-Service that helps developers accelerate real-time applications for hundreds of millions of users worldwide. When every millisecond counts, Subspace gives you the fastest, most reliable network to route your traffic through. And it all works via a global IP proxy that sets up using a simple API. Learn more and get started for free at subspace.com/changelog MongoDB – An integrated suite of cloud database and services — They have a FREE forever tier, so you can prove to yourself and to your team that they have everything you need. Check it out today at mongodb.com/changelog Featuring: Paul Copplestone – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Supabase Supabase docs supabase/supabase Supabase Realtime Tweet: Total databases on the Supabase platform Tweet: In 2021 Supabase grew… The Changelog #461: Fauna is rethinking the database with Evan Weaver postgresql.org Firebase Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Paul Copplestone

CEO and Co-founder

Supabase

Vitess is a cloud native database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. It was built for YouTube, open sourced, and has recently graduated from the CNCF. Two members of the team who wrote and ran Vitess at YouTube, Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane, are CEO and CTO of PlanetScale; a company they founded to support Vitess commercially. They join Craig and Adam to talk databases. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Our meetup at KubeCon The WeWork booth at KubeCon You Must Build A Boat You Have To Win The Game News of the week Anthos news from Next UK Multi-cluster management with Anthos GitLab Serverless with Cloud Run for Anthos Project Antrea from VMware Managed Istio GA on IBM Kubernetes Service IBM open sources developer tools Kui and iter8 Episode 47 with Kim Lewandowski Solo.io introduces Autopilot Hubble, from Cilium ByteBuilders introduces Kubeform Cloudbees adds Jenkins X UI to their community distribution Juniper updates Contrail Slack Vitess case study Debugging network stalls on Kubernetes by Theo Julienne at GitHub Volterra's control plane for distributed PaaS Gravitational takes $25m investment Datadog's 2019 container report Aqua Security acquires Cloudsploit CNCF 2019 award winners Episode 72 with Lachlan Evenson Episode 77 with Katharine Berry Links from the interview Vitess About Jiten and Sugu Graduated from the CNCF Database shards Vitess history YouTube acquired by Google in 2006 Go; 10 years old Google storage systems: Bigtable Colossus Scaling MySQL in the cloud with Vitess and Kubernetes and Cloud Native MySQL Sharding with Vitess and Kubernetes by Anthony Yeh, Google Cloud Case studies: Stich Labs, Hubspot, JD.com Vitess at KubeCon: Vitess: Stateless Storage in the Cloud by Sugu Sougoumarane Geo-partitioning with Vitess by Deepthi Sigireddi and Jiten Vaidya How to Migrate a MySQL Database to Vitess by Sugu Sougoumarane & Morgan Tocker Gone in 60 Minutes: Migrating 20 TB from AKS to GKE in an Hour with Vitess by Derek Perkins from Nozzle Postgres support PlanetScale Announcing PlanetScale's CNDb The name Voltron Strong Bad's advice on naming things Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane on Twitter

Jiten Vaidya

CEO

PlanetScale

Sugu Sougoumarane

Creator of Vitess

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