The Database Ruins All Good Ideas

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  • rqlite

    The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite.

    SQLite is a remarkably good solution to most of these problems, if deployed correctly.

    For your main line-of-business database? Of course not. But a deployment of rqlite[0] for your service workers in a read-heavy workload? cuts out a round-trip out of the VM, mocking is trivial, there's a lot to like there.

    [0]: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

  • vitess

    Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

    >Each tier is either easy to reason about scaling out horizontally except for the database.

    Vitess [1], A database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, or Planetscale [2] which is the SaaS version. Of course everything is good on paper until you run into edge cases. But I am convinced within this decade scaling problem or hassle will be a thing of the past for 95% of us.

    [1] https://vitess.io

    [2] https://www.planetscale.com

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • embedded-database-spring-test

    A library for creating isolated embedded databases for Spring-powered integration tests.

    and now as easy as adding `@AutoConfigureEmbeddedDatabase`

    https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-database-spring-test

    also helps with having it verify all your database migrations as well

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