Lobsters Swaps MariaDB for SQLite, Boosting Simplicity and Speed
Lobsters, the tech‑news link‑aggregator, finished moving its production database from MariaDB to SQLite. Simon Willison’s post explains why the single‑file engine cut hosting complexity, how the migration was scripted, and that request latency dropped about 30% while handling the same traffic. The shift shows SQLite can power non‑trivial web services at scale.