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Supabase in Production: What I Wish I Knew Before 185 Tables

After a year of running Supabase in production with 185 tables, here's the honest review — what's incredible, what's frustrating, and what almost made me switch.

By Jason TeixeiraNovember 22, 2025
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I've been running Supabase in production for over a year. 185 tables. 69 API endpoints. Stripe webhooks. Real-time subscriptions. Discord bot data. Trading analytics.

This isn't a "getting started" tutorial. This is the honest review after living with it at scale.

What's Genuinely Incredible

Row-Level Security Changes Everything

RLS is Supabase's killer feature, and most people underuse it. Instead of writing authorization checks in every API endpoint, the database enforces access:

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