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Supercharge the One Person Framework with SQLite


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Pair that power and simplicity with modern hardware, and you are hopefully starting to appreciate how SQLite enhances the vision of Rails as the one-person framework, enabling us to radically simplify our application’s operational needs. This app runs on a single $4 per month Hetzner box, with SQLite backing its IO needs, and it has served millions of requests with an average response time of less than 100 milliseconds and 4 nines of uptime. Of course, tech Twitter has been chatting incessantly recently about Peter Levels’ setup, because he runs multiple successful applications, all backed by SQLite, with a single beefy VPS.

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