> sqlite is awesome when you run it in one instance on a VM or something,

This article really needs to be taken in the context of the author’s target audience: He sells courses that primarily target web dev juniors doing learning projects and small projects. That’s why he includes the “most of you reading this” disclaimer in the article:

> So, can you use SQLite? For the vast majority of you reading this, the answer is “yes.” Should you use SQLite? I’d say that still for the majority of you reading this, the answer is also “yes.”

Pushing strong contrarian opinions is part of his social media marketing style. He’s also pushing a “why I won’t use next.js” article and opinion on his social media, while conveniently omitting the obvious conflict of interest that he sells courses that don’t happen to cover Next.js.