I'm All-in on Server-Side Sqlite

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SqliteDatabase ScalingServer-Side Databases

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The article discusses using SQLite as a production database with Litestream for replication, sparking debate among commenters about its feasibility and scalability.

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christophilus

4 months ago

2022. It was discussed previously. I remain skeptical of the idea.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31318708

fcpguru

4 months ago

so let me get this straight. no more aws RDS, no more more planetscale or neon to scale postgres horizontally, just use that defaut dev only database that a new ruby on rails project uses... but in prod?

i think I love it.

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