Maybe the monolith shouldn't use PHP and MySQL. But what about, say, a high-performance managed runtime (e.g. JVM or CLR) and SQLite? Expensify's findings [1] s

Maybe the monolith shouldn't use PHP and MySQL. But what about, say, a high-performance managed runtime (e.g. JVM or CLR) and SQLite? Expensify's findings [1] suggest that with vertical scaling, SQLite can go very far. [1]: https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-qps-on-a-single-server/ https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-q...