What Julia Evans thinks about SQLite

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1. 17 Jul 2026

   Our readingSQLite is a fine production database for a small site, but running it well is more complicated than the "SQLite in production is totally fine" blog posts make it sound.

   Their wordsI read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fine, but what I did not fully appreciate is that SQLite is still a database, databases are complicated, and I do not know a lot about operating databases.

   ↗Learning a few things about running SQLitejvns.ca