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I think in the past it was more obvious. Rails switched to SQLite as the default somewhat recently
by conradkay 9mo ago
I think in the past it was more obvious. Rails switched to SQLite as the default somewhat recently
- jstummbillig 9mo agoYeah, that's the one prominent example but, like you said, also just rather recently. Since "the network is slow, duh" has always been true, I wonder why.
- Kerrick 9mo agoIt took a lot: https://fractaledmind.com/2023/12/23/rubyconftw/ https://fractaledmind.com/2023/12/23/rubyconftw/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39835496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39835496
- conradkay 9mo agoMy guess would be that performance improvements (mostly hardware from Moore's law and the proliferation of SSDs, but also SQLite itself) have led to far fewer websites needing to run on more than 1 computer, and most are fine on a $5/month VPS And stuff like https://litestream.io/ https://litestream.io/ or SQLite adding STRICT mode