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Migrating from Supabase

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In the last couple weeks, we’ve migrated Val Town away from Supabase to a simpler database setup at Render. We’ve gotten a few questions about this, so we wanted to share what motivated the move, what we learned, and how we pulled it off. Supabase is an enormously successful product with a lot of happy users, but we ended up having a lot of problems getting to scale to our team’s needs. Your mileage may vary, but we hope our experience is a useful data point. Val Town was started by Steve Krouse in July 2022 as a site to write, run, deploy, and share snippets of server-side JavaScript. Our users describe us as “Codepen for the backend”. Folks use us to make little APIs, schedule cron jobs, and make little integrations between services, like downtime detectors, price watchers, programmatic notification services, etc. Steve built the initial version of Val Town on Supabase. I (Tom MacWright) joined in Jan 2023. Supabase can be a way to build your entire application backend without writin

Code and prose written on val.town Migrating from Supabase Tom MacWright May 19, 2023 In the last couple weeks, we've migrated Val Town away from Supabase to a simpler database setup at Render . We’ve gotten a few questions about this, so we wanted to share what motivated the move, what we learned, and how we pulled it off. Supabase is an enormously successful product with a lot of happy users, but we ended up having a lot of problems getting to scale to our team's needs. Your mileage may vary, but we hope our experience is a useful data point. Background Val Town was started by Steve Krouse i

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