SQLite for Production When and How to Use It Beyond Prototyping

sora
Wed, 06 May 2026 01:56:21 +0000

I’ve seen teams treat a .sqlite file like a little “document” and just rsync it around, and it behaves… until WAL makes that assumption quietly false.

The backup API feels annoyingly ceremonial, but it’s the one thing that reliably gives you “one coherent moment in time” even while writes are still happening.