> tooling Yes, I learned this the hard way. I understood that simplicity meant limitations, but I did not understand that simplicity meant danger until SQLite

> tooling Yes, I learned this the hard way. I understood that simplicity meant limitations, but I did not understand that simplicity meant danger until SQLite burned me. If your perf tanks, you don't want to have to spend days putting timers all around someone else's codebase. Caveat: SQLite may be better these days -- my incident happened in 2013 -- but I spent more time tracking that one SQLite issue than I have spent spinning up postgres instances since then.