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I still haven't figured out a good way to due blue/green sqlite deploys on fly.io. Is this just a limitation of using sqlite or using Fly? I've been very happy with sqlite otherwise, rather unsure how to do a cutover to a new instance.

Anyone have some docs on how to cutover gracefully with sqlite on other providers?

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You accept downtime. That's the limitation of SQLite.

Or you use some distributed SQLite tool like rqlite, etc

I'm personally fine with a little bit of downtime for my particular small app. I'm just surprised there's not a more detailed story around deploying sqlite in a high availability prod environment given it's increased popularity and coverage over the last few years. Especially surprising with Rails' (my stack) going full "sqlite-first".

The "sqlite-first" folks have accepted that a bit of downtime is better than engineering wildly complex systems that avoid it, for non-mission-critical apps (if your mission is a low volume e-commerce shop.. it's not critical)

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