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About the choice of the database. Why did you decide to go with PSQL instead of a NoSQL database as Firebase does? Doesn't that affect your scalability?

Otherwise, great project!

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Actually we chose Postgres specifically because it is scalable. I had to switch from Firebase in my previous company because we hit some scaling limits. Postgres handles the scale no problem - it's crazy the performance improvement we saw (and it's ACID)

The trickiest part was the realtime functionality - https://github.com/supabase/realtime

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