I had seen Dr. Hipp speak at a conference[1] around 2009 and it really put SQLite on my radar as a (then) Mac developer. It ended up surfacing from the back of

I had seen Dr. Hipp speak at a conference[1] around 2009 and it really put SQLite on my radar as a (then) Mac developer. It ended up surfacing from the back of my mind around then at Mapbox when I put together the prototype of the MBTiles file format[2] which is still in use today. The idea of an on-disk relational database was new to me and just a perfect fit for where mobile devices were at that point in time, and for our use case of offline maps. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_(conference)#C4[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_(conference)#C4[2] [2] https://medium.com/devseed/portable-map-tiles-format-released-2a0fa3aa0bf4 https://medium.com/devseed/portable-map-tiles-format-release...