Software Development
Rails 8 solo developers bet on SQLite for production, ditching Postgres complexity
Rails 8's Solid suite lets one-person startups run background jobs, caching, and WebSockets on SQLite alone. With NVMe SSDs eliminating disk bottlenecks and Litestream handling real-time backups to S3, the question isn't whether SQLite can handle production traffic, it's whether you actually need Postgres yet.