Databases
Once seen as embedded-only, SQLite now runs production workloads at meaningful scale.
Write-ahead logging removed most concurrency pain, and modern hardware made single-node capacity far larger than assumed. Zero network latency turns out to be a considerable advantage.
Read-heavy applications with a single writer, edge deployments and anything valuing operational simplicity. No server to run, no connection pool to tune.
Multiple concurrent writers across machines. That constraint is architectural and no amount of tuning removes it.
The obligations are lighter than most owners fear, but they are not zero, and a few of them touch your hosting directly.
West African connectivity depends on a small number of submarine cables. When one is damaged, the effects are immediate and the re…
A visible number of companies have moved workloads back from public cloud. The reasoning is more nuanced than "cloud is expensive"…
Major platforms now offer passkeys by default, and the underlying idea removes the attack that causes most account compromises.
Encryption is no longer the main threat. Increasingly, attackers copy data and threaten publication.
Several widely used projects have moved to restrictive licences, and downstream users have had to react.
