Sugu Sougoumarane

I'm re-releasing the generalized consensus series one blog at a time for easier ingestion. Today, it will be the first two parts: Defining the Problem and Setting the Requirements. Links in 🧵

one of the most tedious parts of Postgres is connection management if you use a connection pooler (almost always the case), you usually need to choose between Transaction Mode, Statement Mode, or Session Mode with @multigres you don't need to choose. coming soon to supabase

Did you know that the metadata in the Postgres wal is insufficient to uniquely identify timelines? @mkindahl uses TLA+ to prove this. multigres.com/blog/2026/05/0…

I'll be speaking at DASH 2026. Hope to meet some of you there. 🤝

this week @ssougou joined @andy_pavlo to talk about Multigres - a couple of database legends going deep on consensus the talk is part of the "PostgreSQL vs. The World" Seminar Series by CMU on youtube the intro song is amazing:

I joined @stripe's Friday Fireside last week with @collision & @patrickc to talk about databases, partnerships, and growth this year IMO Stripe is one of the only developer-focused companies that remained relevant while scaling up. I've admired Stripe since it launched, so it was an honor to be invited to talk. Also cool that today we are transferring our open source "Stripe Sync Engine" to Stripe: supabase.com/blog/stripe-sy… This is a tool that we started in 2021 to "Continuously synchronize a Stripe account to a Postgres database": github.com/stripe/sync-en… Stripe engineers started contributing to this repo last year, eventually integrating it into the Stripe dashboard. The transfer means the repo will sit inside the Stripe GitHub org and meet their security requirements - staying open source under the Apache 2.0 license. The Supabase team will continue to contribute to this repo This is how Supabase has operated since we launched. We don't just want to be an open source company - we want to be a _collaborative_ company: supporting existing tools and communities wherever possible, employing maintainers, donating patents, and giving back to communities that push the developer ecosystem further

@eqoram @supabase @multigres Yes: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs-w…

@supabase @ssougou @multigres Is it going to be recorded?

Check out @ssougou's talk on @multigres at 4:30pm ET

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: The Great Sugu Sougoumarane (@ssougou) from @supabase will present the architecture of @multigres horizontal sharding system for Postgres. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs-w…

@thinkx @MarcJBrooker That statement is taken out of context. In that same paper, @heidiann360 also clearly states that multipaxos is more efficient.

@MarcJBrooker @ssougou

I have built and operated some of the biggest Paxos-based systems in the world, and strongly disagree with this statement. Paxos is well-understood, scales just the same as any protocol that solves the same problem, and is the foundation of the most reliable systems on earth.

@jordienr I'm excited too!

is it weird that im excited to build the multigres o11y

@eatonphil You can play with it for sure. Let us know if you find bugs.

@ssougou Is it worth taking it for a test run now or too early?

Things are starting to come together.

Looking forward to the talk tomorrow.

Welcome to Supabase!

Our next South Bay Systems meetup will be on March 31. We've got two awesome deep-dive talks: - @ssougou will present deconstructing consensus and its application to Multigres - @stuhood will talk about how modern full-text search is evolving toward columnar systems (and the tricky optimization challenges) Food and beverages will be provided, courtesy of our hosts, @Snowflake Come hang out with the systems crowd 👇

I'm so happy to be part of this journey.

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Yesterday we had an outage affecting all services in the us-east-2 (Ohio) region We have published the post-mortem: supabase.com/blog/supabase-… This post is an account of what happened, how it happened, and the concrete steps we are taking to make sure it does not happen again. We know you depend on Supabase to be reliable. We let you down in both reliability and communications. I am grateful to every customer who reported issues, waited patiently, and provided feedback on how we can improve. We will make major structural changes to earn back your trust.

.@guptamanan100 reveals how he built the Postgres compatible @multigres parser in go: multigres.com/blog/ai-parser…

@coreyward Both Multigres & OrioleDB are landing this year and they will be industry-leading for performance