SQLite in Production
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Everyone says 'SQLite is just for dev and mobile!' but then you realize it powers more active deployments than all other databases combined. It's a database in a single file — no server, no config, no drama. With tools like Litestream for replication, people are now running it in production and sleeping fine at night.
Real Talk
The practice of using SQLite as a production database for web applications, enabled by modern deployment patterns (single-server, embedded) and replication tools (Litestream, LiteFS). It offers zero-config operation, sub-millisecond reads, and ACID compliance, though it's limited to single-writer concurrency.
When You'll Hear This
"Our SaaS runs on SQLite in production — 50k daily users, single server, zero database ops." / "SQLite in production works great until you need horizontal write scaling — then you need a plan."
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