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by jbrogers63 67 days ago
"On our t3.small (2GB RAM), the web container uses ~780MB. Spawning an exec container for a quick database query adds another ~500MB. Two concurrent exec calls during a deploy? That's 2.5GB on a 2GB machine. OOM killer takes the web process down."

I suspect this is the reason for SQLite and not PG or some other DB. From my read of the article, it sounds like they're running lean (single host for web, db, etc). PG et. al. add overhead that they likely can't (or more likely won't want to) afford on that box. Maybe I'm wrong?