We sell live http media streaming and use sqlite3 locally to solve most of the hairy race conditions you would expect when serving files while they are simultaneously being written to. Despite our advice and common wisdom, every now and then customers complain about corrupted databases and after talks we discover they are using rsync or NFS to replicate the sqlite DB file.
So, I was very interested in this article which seemed to suggest that fly.io, somehow found a way to make this work anyhow. TL;DR — looks like the answer is: they did not.
So, I was very interested in this article which seemed to suggest that fly.io, somehow found a way to make this work anyhow. TL;DR — looks like the answer is: they did not.