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litestack
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Speed Up Your Ruby on Rails Application with LiteCache
The benchmarks for LiteCache are impressive, with a small caveat. While LiteCache outperforms a local Redis installation for every read operation, it seems like there's still room for improvement, especially for large write payloads.
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Stream Updates to Your Users with LiteCable for Ruby on Rails
Luckily, the official LiteStack benchmarks include measurements for LiteCable against Redis, which I am going to quote here.
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Handle Incoming Webhooks with LiteJob for Ruby on Rails
Let's quickly look into how LiteJob uses SQLite to implement a job queueing system. In essence, the class Litequeue interfaces with the SQLite queue table. This table's columns, like id, name, fire_at, value, and created_at, store and manage job details.
- All-in-one Ruby gem for webapp data infrastructure
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An Introduction to LiteStack for Ruby on Rails
Next, we install LiteStack using the shipped generator:
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I'm All-In on Server-Side SQLite
Related: I wrote a piece last week on deploying Rails apps to production on Fly.io at https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/sqlite-and-rails-in-production/
The work that’s made this possible is:
1. Litestack - https://github.com/oldmoe/litestack
2. Fly.io’s work on the dockerfile-rails generator detecting Sqlite and Litestack in a Rails project, then setting up sane defaults for where that data is stored and persisted in production. This is all done behind the scenes with no intervention required from the person deploying.
3. Servers are overall faster and more powerful
I hope more Rails hosts make it easier and safer to deploy Sqlite to production. It will lower costs and reduce complexity for folks deploying apps.
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Extralite 2.0 has been released!
Didn't know that one! The litestack.gemspec shows it's a wrapper around the sqlite3 gem. So, not really comparable...
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LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups
I’m working on this for Rails apps at https://github.com/oldmoe/litestack/pull/12
The idea is that people with small-to-medium size Rails Turbo apps should be able to deploy them without needing Redis or Postgres.
I’ve gotten as far as deploying this stack _without_ LiteFS and it works great. The only downside is the application queues requests on deploy, but for some smaller apps it’s acceptable to have the client wait for a few seconds while the app restarts.
When I get that PR merged I’ll write about how it works on Fly and publish it to https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/.
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Ask HN: What's the fastest and simplest way to prototype a web app in 2023?
Rails is the way to go. The productivity of the Ruby language is insane. It's battle tested for decades and you can easily scale your prototype.
If you want a simple app served on a single host you can try LiteStack [0] so you don't need a Redis/Postgres/Sidekiq instance, just SQLite.
Laravel is also good if you like PHP language.
[0] https://github.com/oldmoe/litestack
- Litestack: A Ruby gem that provides an all-in-one solution for web application
sqld
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LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups
There's https://github.com/libsql/sqld , but sqlite's concurrency model doesn't always work well with long-lived transactions (and just the network hop can be slower than a local transaction), especially if you want to write.
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Get started with libSQL, a next-gen fork of SQLite
For instructions on how to build sqld from source, see the docs.
- Help me sell sqlite to my boss
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Litestream is awesome for backing up sqlite databases
I also discovered https://github.com/libsql/sqld/ which provides similar functionality ("Bottomless replication"), and exposes the database over the network via the Postgres protocol. I haven't played with this yet, but it would be neat to try running some apps that require Postgres with this.
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Early impressions of Turso, the edge database from ChiselStrike
There are some language-specific clients suited for data transaction with a Turso database, such as @libsql/client for TypeScript, libsql-client for Python, and libsql-client for Rust(currently works with Cloudflare workers), but for simplicity, we’re going to use curl scripts. We’ll interact with the database by sending HTTP POST requests containing the JSON-encoded SQL queries that we’d otherwise run on the SQL shell as already demonstrated. By supporting database interaction via the HTTP protocol, Turso guarantees easy access from all types of applications, especially edge functions.
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SQLite-based databases on the Postgres protocol? Yes we can
- And you can embed it in your application and it will really talk to a "SQLite" database over the network: https://github.com/libsql/sqld (not a lot on consistency, I wonder how multiple writers are handled?)
- In 3 months, libsql released WASM functions, S3 WAL and network database sqld
- Sqld – a server mode for libSQL (SQLite fork) using the PostgreSQL wire protocol
- Sqld is a server mode for libSQL
What are some alternatives?
extralite - Ruby on SQLite
litefs-js - JavaScript utilities for working with LiteFS on Fly.io
corrosion - Gossip-based service discovery (and more) for large distributed systems.
mycelite - Mycelite is a SQLite extension that allows you to synchronize changes from one instance of SQLite to another.
sqlite-y-crdt - Y-CRDT extension for SQLite
StorX - PHP library for flat-file data storage
StorX-API - A REST API for StorX
replicate-rails - Replicate gem for Rails
stream-sqlite - Python function to extract rows from a SQLite file while iterating over its bytes
marmot - A distributed SQLite replicator built on top of NATS
donutdb - Store and query a sqlite db directly backed by DynamoDB.