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• We Built an Open-Source GraphQL Engine to Replace Hasura
  1 project | dev.to | 4 Jun 2026

  We built Constellation — an open-source GraphQL engine written in Go that is a near drop-in replacement for Hasura Community Edition. It reads the same metadata, generates the same schema, and serves the same GraphQL API. In production it uses ~90% less memory than Hasura with comparable or better latency, before any dedicated performance work.

• Show HN: Constellation is an open-source Hasura-compatible GraphQL engine in Go
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jun 2026

  Hi HN,

  We’re building Constellation, an open-source GraphQL engine written in Go.

  It’s designed to be a near drop-in replacement for Hasura Community Edition: it reads Hasura metadata, generates a compatible GraphQL schema, and supports queries, mutations, subscriptions, permissions, relationships, remote schemas, and cross-source relationships.

  We started this because Hasura v2 has been the core of Nhost’s GraphQL layer for years, but v2 is winding down in favor of v3, and v3 does not follow the same open-source model.

  For Nhost, owning the GraphQL and permissions layer is important: it lets us keep the stack open source, reduce operational overhead, and build the agent/developer workflows we want directly into the platform.

  Constellation is already serving production traffic at Nhost. In our current production comparison, it uses roughly 90% less memory than Hasura for the same workload. CPU is also lower, but we’re being careful with those numbers because these are raw production dashboards rather than a curated benchmark.

  Important caveat: this is still early. Today, Constellation runs alongside Hasura. Hasura still owns metadata authoring, and several Hasura features are not implemented yet, including Actions, Event Triggers, Cron Triggers, REST endpoints, allowlists, query collections, inherited roles, native queries, and computed fields.

  We’re looking for feedback from people running real Hasura projects. The most useful thing right now is to try Constellation against real metadata and schemas, diff the generated schema, send traffic through it, and tell us where compatibility breaks.

  GitHub: https://github.com/nhost/nhost/tree/main/services/constellat...

• The Ultimate Guide to Self-Hosting n8n for Free using Render and Nhost
  3 projects | dev.to | 10 Sep 2025

  For this tutorial, we will focus on Render and Nhost because they offer a powerful, zero-cost entry point for a fully functional, self-hosted n8n instance.

• Top 7 Open-Source Tools Developers Should Know in 2025 [Beginner to Intermediate]
  5 projects | dev.to | 7 Aug 2025

  5. Nhost

• The Backend Shift: Leveraging Open Source Powerhouses for Faster, Leaner Apps
  15 projects | dev.to | 10 May 2025

  Nhost (nhost.io):

• Database Review: Top Five Missing Features from Database APIs
  19 projects | dev.to | 14 Sep 2023

  Hasura ❌ (technically yes with Nhost)

• the code written during those sudden spurts of inspiration are the backbone of most software development
  1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 16 May 2023

  Only caveat I say is make sure there's something in it for you; if it's 2 AM it better be mostly for self-benefit. I'm busy constructing a monorepo with the latest technology with NX and pnpm and a half dozen other technologies (I recommend checking out http://nhost.io/); at the end I will build whatever I want and maybe make money. It's not done for the good of someone else exclusively that's for sure

• Does an open source 'backend platform' exist for dotnet?
  7 projects | /r/dotnet | 5 May 2023

  Yeah, I knew of those, I think that's discussed often enough on the dotnet subs. Ory and Zitadel I knew too, but those provide just one thing, and are not native to dotnet. Altough I'll admit, stuff like nhost seem native to typescript but uses go projects under the covers as well.

• You're starting development today, which libraries are you going with?
  1 project | /r/graphql | 23 Mar 2023

  I'm really digging nhost and apollo-client.

• Is there smth like firebase on-prem?
  2 projects | /r/Firebase | 25 Jan 2023

  You can use Nhost (100% open source): https://github.com/nhost/nhost/tree/main/examples/docker-compose

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