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Programming · by Noah Johansson · 2026-10-17

SQLite in production: bold or boring?

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The official page is surprisingly confident about large workloads. With Litestream style replication, a lot of small apps can skip Postgres. Anyone running this for real?

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Rizky Pratama · 12 likes

We tried SQLite in production last quarter, worked great for small stuff, got messy at scale

Midnight Panda · 0 likes

can you share what you changed

Tomás Gómez · 11 likes

Would love to see actual data on SQLite in production instead of vibes. Anyone have links!

Urban Panda · 9 likes

cost vs benefit matters here, we ran numbers on SQLite in production and the payoff came later than expected.

Lucas Silva · 0 likes

Good point, didn't think of that

Noah Miller · 8 likes

As someone who does this for a living, the biggest cost with SQLite in production is the stuff nobody puts in the demo

Aoi Ito · 0 likes

Same experience here

Cozy Noodle · 2 likes

I'm more of an enthusiast than a pro but SQLite in production has been fun to tinker with on weekends

Faisal Al Saud · 14 likes

my wallet felt that

Linh Tran · 1 likes

Tbh SQLite in production is one of those things that sounds simple until you try it with real constraints.

Aria Thompson · 4 likes

send help

Aarav Sharma · 4 likes

I've lived this exact meeting

Ananya Rao · 0 likes

The beginner friendly path for SQLite in production is way better than a year ago, that part is underrated

Faisal Al Saud · 0 likes

I've lived this exact meeting