I mentioned to
@kiwicopple that we were using
@supabase realtime in my previous backend work to listen to database updates and automatically process data based off that.
Basically, it powered our event-driven architecture. An example use case is when a customer submits a form.
We enabled realtime to listen to inserts to the table where the form data is saved, then it triggers processing to automatically update our
@HubSpot CRM which is a different system with new customer data.
To make realtime work, we enabled WAL (write ahead log) in postgres
Realtime is one of the underrated features developed by
@supabase which I really love. We used the open-source version of it and deployed using docker