Production e-commerce store built on SQLite with Rails 8 using WAL mode for concurrent access. Incident where 11 rapid deploys caused overlapping containers, losing two orders (while Stripe payments succeeded) due to WAL write contention — fix required procedural changes to deployment pacing.
Infrastructure
SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File
SQLite production deployments hit a subtle wall when 11 simultaneous Rails containers overlap, triggering WAL write contention that orphans orders even as Stripe payments succeed — exposing deployment orchestration, not database limits, as the constraint.
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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