[dimitrios1]

SQLite has been taken seriously by serious people for decades. We just don't hear about it in the cool, hipster startup circles because it isn't sexy. But it's steadily grown to be the most deployed embedded database in the world, in millions of devices, and have specialized strands that went through military and medical grade formal validations to end up in airplanes, fighter pilots, naval ships, medical devices.

You have to look where SQLite isn't rather than where it is these days.

[tptacek]

The shift isn't in SQLite being taken seriously behind the scenes, or as a better file format. It's in SQLite being taken seriously as an alternative to n-tier database in full stack applications.

[rrdharan]

I don’t necessarily disagree but I still get an Upton Sinclair vibe from fly.io folks declaring that this shift is happening as a matter of fact / by fiat.

[tptacek]

Why? We don't have an SQLite offering; we do Postgres.

[sgbeal]

> ... in millions of devices...

cough _Billions_ cough with a capital "B". Very nearly every non-trivial electronic device built over the past 10-15 years. (Non-trivial being very roughly: "anything with a UI or having the potential to run one.")