Supercharge the One Person Framework with SQLite: Rails World 2024

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2024-10-16 12:00:05

From its beginning, Rails has been famous for being a kind of a rocket engine that could propel your idea to astronomic heights at supersonic speed. But, at least for me, it has lately felt like I needed to be a rocket scientist to then deploy and run my full-featured application.

Let’s consider a typical Heroku application architecture from, say, 2008. It would have had some web dynos to respond to HTTP requests, a database to persist data, and some worker dynos alongside a job queue. Sure, it’s a distributed system, but it is manageable enough.

And I’m sure many, if not most, of you see this and think that this is simply the cost of running production-grade systems these days. It is easy enough to believe that complexity is the price to pay for progress.

But, not always. Sometimes progress is simplification. Sometimes progress is reducing the number of moving parts, shrinking the surface area of the system, yet still expanding its power and functionality.