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The Untold Story of SQLite (2021)
On today's show, I'm talking to Richard Hipp about surviving becoming core infrastructure for the world. SQLite is everywhere. It's in your web browser, it's in your phone, it's probably in your car, and it's definitely in commercial planes. It's where your iMessages and WhatsApp messages are stored, and if you do a find on your computer for *.db, you'll... […]
Embedded development like building a smartphone can be a slow process, long iteration loops, time spent waiting for things to be flashed onto new prototypes, people working off breadboards that look nothing like finished products. It’s a couple hundred dollars, but it’s a reasonably thin volume and you can read through it, and with sufficient study you can understand what they’re talking about, so I did that, and I actually started following some of their processes, and one of the key things that they push is, they want 100% MCDC test coverage. The Consortium could have stifled progress or run out of money, or the full year it took to address all the android bugs could have easily burnt Richard out, but he prevailed and now he’s in a great position to offer advice to others who want to create impactful open source software.
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