DBs other than sqlite need their own dedicated servers, it says.
A good way to store online chats is db-per-chat, it says.
Sqlite scales great with [fusilade of very specific proprietary cloud services], it says.
Sqlite is great but companies like this seem determined to ruin it. MongoDB all over again.
To clarify — is your concern that the only scaling options I listed are proprietary services?
If so, I completely agree. This article was inspired by a tool we're building internally, based on the same architecture. We knew this was the right approach, but we refuse to rely on proprietary databases, so we built our own in-house.
We’re planning to open-source it soon.