Company
Date Published
Dec. 5, 2024
Author
Ivan Vasilov, Oliver Rice
Word count
1011
Language
English
Hacker News points
19

Summary

Supabase Queues is a durable Message Queue designed to improve the scalability and resilience of applications by managing background task processing. Built on the pgmq extension by Tembo, it works seamlessly with the entire Supabase platform. Key features include Postgres native support, granular authorization, guaranteed message delivery, exactly once message delivery, queue management and monitoring, and message durability and archival. Queues can be used for asynchronous task processing, communication between services, and load balancing. The functionality runs entirely in the database with no additional costs.