Supabase is an open supply backend-as-a-service platform and competes straight with Google’s Firebase. A key distinction between them is that Firebase is a doc retailer, whereas Supabase makes use of Postgres, which is a SQL-based database administration system.

Software program Engineering Every day final lined Supabase in 2020 when its Founder Paul Copplestone got here on the present, and rather a lot has modified since then. The platform has continued to develop its function set and, importantly, this progress has include an expanded variety of safety issues.

Inian Parameshwaran is Head of Product and Engineering at Supabase and a former YCombinator Fellow. He began at Supabase when the platform was nonetheless in alpha, and has been there for 3 years. He joins the present right this moment to speak concerning the present function set of Supabase, and the assorted safety challenges that he and his staff work on, together with deal with crypto mining exploits, IP blocking, DDoS assaults, and extra.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Beforehand, Gregor was a CTO throughout cybersecurity, cyber insurance coverage and basic software program engineering firms. He has been based mostly in Asia Pacific for nearly a decade and may be discovered through his profile at vand.hk.