How do you maintain extreme operational reliability while managing over fifty million databases?

Paul Copplestone
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Co-Founder & CEO at Supabase

Niche: SaaS
Revenue: Approx. USD 4 Million/month
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Started: 2020

Scaling to tens of millions of active Postgres instances requires aggressive automation and isolation. We treat each tenant database as an independent containerized workload rather than sharing massive multitenant monolithic clusters. This architectural decision prevents noisy neighbor problems, guarantees security boundaries, and allows us to perform seamless rolling updates across planetary infrastructure.

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