lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

·Simon Willison··

lobste.rs is now running on SQLite Community site Lobsters has been planning a migration away from MariaDB since August 2018 - originally targeting PostgreSQL, but last year they decided to investigate SQLite instead. This weekend they completed the migration, and now consider it stable enough that it looks like this is the permanent architecture for the site going forward: SQLite seems to have passed with flying colors: cpu usage is down, memory usage is down, site seems to be snappier at least...

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