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Supavisor

Supavisor

Cloud-native Postgres connection pooler

Supavisor is a high-performance, multi-tenant Postgres connection pooler built in Elixir. Alternative to PgBouncer for cloud-native environments.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

Multi-tenant connection pooling for Postgres at scale. Elixir's concurrency model is perfect for this use case.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Skip

PgBouncer works fine for most use cases. Supavisor matters for Supabase-scale multi-tenant deployments.

The Futurist

The Futurist

Big Picture

Ship

Cloud-native connection pooling is essential infrastructure. Supavisor solves it at the right abstraction level.

Community Sentiment

Overall1,510 mentions
66% positive24% neutral10% negative
Hacker News340 mentions
71%21%8%

Elixir was the right call here — the concurrency model is perfect for connection pooling

Reddit420 mentions
66%24%10%

Multi-tenant pooling without the PgBouncer config hell is genuinely refreshing

Twitter/X610 mentions
62%26%12%

Supabase shipping their own PgBouncer replacement says everything about how bad PgBouncer config is

Product Hunt140 mentions
73%18%9%

Cloud-native Postgres pooling done right — scales to serverless patterns PgBouncer never could