[LeonenTheDK]

> I see the sqlite hype as a (legitimate) pendulum swing away from defaulting to 'web scale' everything to a realization that most of the systems we design don't need it.

That was exactly my thought, the majority of work that gets put out there isn't going to need to scale to many different nodes to serve thousands+ of concurrent users. If you're actually serving tonnes of traffic and need clustering or high end redundancy, have at 'er. But for most of the professional work I've done, SQLite is more than enough (provided you back it up properly!)

I think this is also influenced by my philosophy of keep things simple and only scale when you need to. I haven't had need of k8s or anything like that and suspect many companies serving small-medium traffic loads don't either.