rqlite

Engineer Philip O'Toole has published a retrospective on twelve years of building rqlite, a distributed database built on SQLite. The piece traces the project's evolution from an experimental idea into a widely used open-source tool, covering design decisions, technical challenges of distributed consensus, and lessons learned from maintaining a long-running side project. Readers are discussing the durability of SQLite as a foundation and the realities of sustaining open-source work over a decade.