November 16, 2021

73: Elixir at Supabase with Paul Copplestone

45 minutes

We talk with Paul Copplestone, founder and CEO of Supabase. Supabase leverages the power of Elixir, Postgres, and more to create an OpenSource Firebase alternative that brings these powers to the Jamstack community. We cover TechCrunch’s coverage of their funding and how Paul considers Supabase as “the easiest way to use Postgres”. They offer a row-level security feature and we dig in to understand that. We go deeper on how an OpenSource company got VC funding and how their business model works. Paul shares how Elixir, Phoenix and PubSub solve some hard problems that other ecosystems just don’t handle and how Supabase helps those other communities get some of those benefits using the tools they already selected. Some interesting features are that you can self-host if you want, swap out different components, and the permissive licenses. It really seems to embody the OSS ethos. Great to learn about another company using Elixir to create a lot of business value!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/73

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/elixir-protobuf/protobuf – Updates to the pure-Elixir Protobuf implementation

https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1455812251517063169 – Andrea Leopardi shares what's new and that the work done by Community.com

https://www.erlang.org/news/151 – New Erlang website was launched

https://www.erlang.org/doc/search – Check out the new full text documentation search!

https://github.com/akoutmos/prom_ex/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – PromEx was updated to v1.5 with new dashboard panels for Ecto and Phoenix

https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1457276012539138049 – Wojtek Mach shared a helpful PSA for macOS users and the new OpenSSL 3 version support issues

https://github.com/wojtekmach/notebooks/blob/main/req_0.2.0.livemd – Req HTTP client library updated to v0.2.0. Includes new "Run in Livebook" button to demo usage.

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Discussion Resources

https://supabase.io/

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/09/supabase-raises-30m-for-its-open-source-insta-backend/

https://github.com/supabase/supabase

https://github.com/supabase/realtime – Elixir project

https://coldfusion.adobe.com/

https://firebase.google.com/

https://jamstack.org/what-is-jamstack/

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-json.html

https://github.com/cainophile/cainophile

https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest

https://postgrest.org/en/v8.0/

https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/

https://plausible.io/

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/kiwicopple – on Twitter

https://github.com/kiwicopple/ – on Github

https://paul.copplest.one/ – Blog

https://supabase.io/ – Supabase website

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