Postgres vs SQLite with Litestream

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Ben Johnson, the creator of Litestream, joined Fly.io a few weeks after we migrated changelog.com - episode 50 has all the details. That was pure coincidence. What was not a coincidence, is Gerhard jumping at the opportunity to talk to Ben about Postgres vs SQLite with Litestream.

The prospect of running a cluster of our app instances spread across all regions, with local SQLite & Litestream replication, is mind boggling. Let’s find out from Ben what will it take to get there. Thanks Kürt for kicking off this dream.

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Featuring:

• Ben Johnson – Website, GitHub, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

🆕 FOLLOW-UP: Live read replicas update in GitHub issue comment

• How this episode started
• I’m All-In on Server-Side SQLite
• Getting Started with Litestream
• github.com/benbjohnson/litestream
• litestream.io repository
• The Secret Lives of Data - Raft
• 🎧 Replicating SQLite using Litestream with Ben Johnson - ThinkingElixir #101 - May, 2022
• 🎧 Open source, not open contribution - Changelog #433 - March, 2021
• Datasette - An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data
• How Litestream Eliminated My Database Server for $0.03/month - April, 2021
• Picoshare - A minimalist, easy-to-host service for sharing images and other files
• Picoshare deploy to Fly.io
• Fly Machines: An API for Fast-booting VMs

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!