My architecture is a monolith written in Go (this is intentional, I sacrificed scalability to improve my shipping speed), and this is where SQLite shines. With a DB located on the local NVMe disk, a 5$ VPS can deliver a whopping 60K reads and 20K writes per second.
Recent articles
- Useful patterns for building HTML tools - 10th December 2025
- Under the hood of Canada Spends with Brendan Samek - 9th December 2025
- Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson - 26th November 2025