Your original post referred to it as "incredibly complex". It isn't at all complex. Is it more complex -- at least to start -- that an fopen/fwrite/fclose? Sur

Your original post referred to it as "incredibly complex". It isn't at all complex. Is it more complex -- at least to start -- that an fopen/fwrite/fclose? Sure, but it's still easier than virtually any other part of any solution worth doing. Worse still, avoiding such non-complexity early on almost certain dooms you to serious complexity later on, because soon enough silly things like concurrency pop up -- the sorts of issues that databases solved decades ago.