Instant streaming APIs with built-in auth for new or existing Postgres
Hey HN! We recently launched a new capability to Hasura GraphQL Engine: Streaming Subscriptions for Postgres. Today we have a variety of solutions to ingest and store a large amount of data or a stream of data. However, once this data has been captured, securely exposing this data as a continuous stream to a large number of HTTP clients concurrently is a challenge. These are the challenges that Hasura aims to address: 1. Allow for Authorization rules so that clients can only consume the subset of the stream they have access to 2. Prevent missing events and allow each client to move through…
Instant streaming APIs with built-in auth for new or existing Postgres launched on September 6, 2022 with 6 votes, #1,157 of 3,464 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
What it does
This post discusses a recent capability added to Hasura GraphQL Engine: Streaming over GraphQL subscriptions for Postgres.
.button]:mt-4">This post discusses a recent capability added to Hasura GraphQL Engine: Streaming over GraphQL subscriptions for Postgres. .button]:mt-4">If you have a large amount of data, or "fast moving" data in Postgres, Hasura now allows you to instantly create an API for clients to fetch that data as a continuous stream. This API can be safely exposed to internal or external HTTP clients. .button]:mt-4">Today we have a variety of solutions to ingest and store a large amount of data or a stream of data. However, once this data has been captured, securely exposing this data as a continuous stream to a large number of HTTP clients concurrently is a challenge. .button]:mt-4">These are the…from hasura.io
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN! We recently launched a new capability to Hasura GraphQL Engine: Streaming Subscriptions for Postgres. Today we have a variety of solutions to ingest and store a large amount of data or a stream of data. However, once this data has been captured, securely exposing this data as a continuous stream to a large…
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