Supabase Acqui-Hires BKND for Agentic Backend Workloads and Hydra for Open Data Warehouse Architecture

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Supabase made two strategic acqui-hires: BKND creator Dennis Senn joins to build a Lite offering specifically for agentic workloads, while Hydra co-creator Joe Sciarrino joins to build Supabase Warehouse — an open data warehouse architecture that accelerates analytics queries on Postgres by 600x via pg_duckdb. Both moves position Supabase as the database+backend layer purpose-built for AI agent deployments, directly competing with more expensive commercial data infrastructure.