Re:Supabase – General Availability Week
by kiwicopple on Monday April 15, 2024 @02:08PM
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let me have another run at it:
> If you use Postgres you're "locked" into Postgres: a technology with a laundry list of providers.
Supabase is just a Postgres platform, and you can use it like that so that you can migrate away to any one of those laundry list. We _also_ provide some tools which are nicely integrated but importantly: they are optional
> doesn't Supabase rely on spinning up additional services to leave,
No, not if you don't use those other services. If you _do_ decide to use another service, then yes, you need to spin it up to leave (or migrate to something else). Hence my comment: this is no different than running, say, Rails on a managed service.
> If you use Postgres you're "locked" into Postgres: a technology with a laundry list of providers.
Supabase is just a Postgres platform, and you can use it like that so that you can migrate away to any one of those laundry list. We _also_ provide some tools which are nicely integrated but importantly: they are optional
> doesn't Supabase rely on spinning up additional services to leave,
No, not if you don't use those other services. If you _do_ decide to use another service, then yes, you need to spin it up to leave (or migrate to something else). Hence my comment: this is no different than running, say, Rails on a managed service.