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With all the talk of PostgreSQL, I'm curious if anyone has tried the offerings Fly.io has been pushing with SQLite (Litestream & LiteFS) in any serious capacity, and can comment on the experience.

Wondering whether they would be a viable alternative to Postgres in the typical "Database + Docker Container" architecture.

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Litestream & LiteFS author here. Tailscale has been using Litestream in production for a while and blogged about it in April 2022[1]. I've had a number of folks contact me out-of-band and tell me they're using in production at a surprising scale.

As for LiteFS, it's still early beta stage so I don't know of many people using it in a production capacity. I would expect it to be another six months or year before confidence builds enough to see more regular usage.

[1]: https://tailscale.com/blog/database-for-2022/

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