There was a great short talk by (I think) Richard Hipp - or possibly Ted T'so? about mistakes people make trying to 'just save your data to disk'. I can't find

There was a great short talk by (I think) Richard Hipp - or possibly Ted T'so? about mistakes people make trying to 'just save your data to disk'. I can't find the one I remember but this does cover a lot of the same material (in a less snappy way): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxXROT_nHqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxXROT_nHqo The meat, on the implmentation of ACID in sqlite3, is around 14:20 in. More complexity than you want to think about is the answer. You could do the same without a db-as-such of course. Anyone remember the talk I mean? It would have been around the same time - 2009ish.