A couple of years ago, Xata founder Monica Sarbu was putting together a passion project called Tupu.io, a platform she was building to help women in tech find mentors. She wanted to include a Postgres database with Elastic search in the Tupu web application, and as a side project, she wanted it to be fairly self-sufficient because volunteers were helping to build and run the site.
As she looked for a serverless database, she realized that there was nothing really out there that met her requirements, and like any good entrepreneur, she started building it. That project would become Xata, a serverless data platform that is generally available starting today.
The platform is built from several open source components, including a Postgres database with Kafka for data streaming and Elastic for search. Web application developers, particularly those bu …
