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At a glance
WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Supabase unveils Compute, Multigress, AurionDB, and Turso acquisition strategy
- Supabase’s leaders previewed multiple Supabase Select announcements spanning compute, database performance, scaling, and enterprise administration.
- A new product called Supabase Compute is meant to enable long-running serverless workloads in the same private network as the database, beyond the current Edge Functions limits.
- They described three database-scale initiatives: AurionDB for faster Postgres storage performance, Multigress for safer multi-node operations and future sharding without code changes, and a scale-out direction enabled by acquiring Turso.
- They argued that AI-driven “vibe coding” and agents are accelerating both database creation and monetization, pushing Supabase toward supporting vastly more (often small) databases with smooth migration/upgrade paths.
- They discussed go-to-market and operations, including a measured product-led sales approach, a greenfield-first enterprise strategy, and internal AI usage and costs in a remote-first organization.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasSupabase is adding long-running, colocated serverless compute beyond Edge Functions.
He said Supabase Compute removes the two-second limit of Edge Functions by offering long-running, serverless compute in the same private network as the database, with direct Postgres connections and support for non-Deno runtimes like Rust or Python.
Supabase is betting on a faster, fully compatible Postgres storage engine: AurionDB.
He described it as a drop-in replacement for Postgres’s current heap storage engine, claiming 1.5–2x speedups, eliminating needs like vacuum/bloat, and said it was extensively tested for Postgres compatibility and data-safety before being released in beta and open-sourced under Apache 2 with a patent grant.
Multigress is positioned as a new, rigorously tested Postgres operator and the path to seamless sharding.
He said Supabase evaluated Postgres operators and found that under certain conditions each could lose data, leading them to rewrite the operator architecture; he cited 1,000 sequential failovers without data loss and positioned it as foundational for future sharding with zero application/query changes.
The Turso acquisition underpins a new scale-out architecture and a small-instance offering (Supabase Spark).
He said Supabase acquired Turso to help “scale out” to billions of databases per month, and described Turso’s architecture as enabling MVCC-like behavior for SQLite (including multiple writers), tying it to a future “file format” approach for very small databases and a smooth upgrade path to Postgres and then Multigress.
Supabase says its sales motion is measured, trigger-driven, and oriented around customer help and incremental growth.
He outlined a “product-led sales” approach where Supabase emails users hitting product triggers, uses a non-responding cohort as a control group, and then has sales teams focus on helping responders; he claimed the cohort that gets help grows much faster, and said sales compensation is tied to incremental uplift versus baseline growth.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesBasically, we looked at the Postgres ecosystem, and we looked at all the operators... and what we had found was that under, um, certain conditions, every single one of them could lose data.
— Paul Copplestone
At the moment, we launch about 5 million databases on our platform every single month, and kind of the future where we know we're going, we think that we're going to have to launch billions per month.
— Paul Copplestone
We spent the first week of being in YC migrating 800 databases to a different cloud, which, you know, if you've ever migrated one database, you know how painful it is.
— Ant Wilson
We actually barely spend any dollars on marketing, and, uh, most of it's just memes and things like that.
— Paul Copplestone
Now we've earmarked, like, um, $1 million in Supabase stock that we're basically gonna give to a bunch of the community members.
— Ant Wilson
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