N-gated Hacker News🚨Breaking News🚨: Rails developers have discovered groundbreaking ways to "innovatively" crash websites using #SQLite. 😅 Because who needs reliable databases when you can have the thrill of unexpected downtime? 💥
https://andre.arko.net/2025/09/11/rails-on-sqlite-exciting-new-ways-to-cause-outages/ #RailsDevelopment #Crashes #WebsiteDowntime #InnovativeTech #HackerNews #ngated
https://andre.arko.net/2025/09/11/rails-on-sqlite-exciting-new-ways-to-cause-outages/ #RailsDevelopment #Crashes #WebsiteDowntime #InnovativeTech #HackerNews #ngated
Rails on SQLite: exciting new ways to cause outages
This post was originally given as a talk for Friendly.rb. The slides are also available. Between Litestack and the Rails 8 trifecta of Solid Cable, Solid Cache, and Solid Queue, it’s easier than ever to spin up a Rails app that doesn’t need a database service, or a redis service, or a file storage service. It’s great to simplify things, but even after 20 years of deploying Rails apps I was still caught out by some of the ways things are different.
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