“Supabase: Best general-purpose choice, particularly if you want PostgreSQL and a relatively complete backend.”
“Supabase: Best general-purpose choice, particularly if you want PostgreSQL and a relatively complete backend.”
“Supabase: Best general-purpose choice, particularly if you want PostgreSQL and a relatively complete backend.”
“One important consideration: self-hosting Supabase doesn't provide complete feature parity with Supabase Cloud.”
“For example, managed backups, point-in-time recovery and some management features aren't included in the self-hosted offering.”
“This is generally the easiest transition if you're coming from a platform like Firebase, Supabase Cloud or another managed backend.”
“Appwrite: Good if you want an integrated backend with less emphasis on working directly with SQL.”
“Appwrite: Good if you want an integrated backend with less emphasis on working directly with SQL.”
“Nhost: Worth considering if GraphQL is central to your architecture.”
“Nhost: Worth considering if GraphQL is central to your architecture.”
“PocketBase: Excellent for simplicity, but less appropriate for larger distributed applications.”
“PocketBase: Excellent for simplicity, but less appropriate for larger distributed applications.”
“PocketBase: Excellent for simplicity, but less appropriate for larger distributed applications.”
“API layer | Hasura, Directus or custom API”
“API layer | Hasura, Directus or custom API”
“Authentication | Keycloak or Authentik”
“Backend | NestJS, FastAPI, Go, Spring Boot”
“I'd generally avoid Kubernetes unless you have a genuine need for its orchestration capabilities.”
“Maximum infrastructure control.”
“Horizontal scaling.”
“Strong isolation between services.”
“Considerably more operational complexity.”
“Requires Kubernetes expertise.”
“Can be excessive for smaller applications.”
“Authentication | Keycloak or Authentik”
“Object storage | MinIO”
“Background jobs | BullMQ or Temporal”
“Background jobs | BullMQ or Temporal”
“Cache | Redis or Valkey”
“Cache | Redis or Valkey”
“Search | Meilisearch or OpenSearch”
“Search | Meilisearch or OpenSearch”
“My recommendation: is a particularly interesting starting point for teams that want infrastructure ownership without immediately building a full DevOps platform.”
“My recommendation: is a particularly interesting starting point for teams that want infrastructure ownership without immediately building a full DevOps platform.”
“Helm for application deployment.”
“Kong or Traefik for API gateways.”
“Kong or Traefik for API gateways.”
“Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.”
“Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring.”
“Argo CD for GitOps deployments.”
“Backend | NestJS, FastAPI, Go, Spring Boot”
“Backend | NestJS, FastAPI, Go, Spring Boot”
“Messaging | RabbitMQ, NATS”
“Messaging | RabbitMQ, NATS”
“Deployment | Docker, Kubernetes”