- Site: simonwillison.net - By: - Date published: - Date read: [[2024-07-14]] - [Read Original](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/13/nikita-melkozerov/) - [Read on Omnivore](https://omnivore.app/me/https-simonwillison-net-2024-jul-13-nikita-melkozerov-190b01947c2) - Tags: #Databases #Technology - Notes: **Note:** Below is the text from the article, with any ==highlights== done by me. None of the writing below is by me. # Article text > My architecture is a monolith written in Go (this is intentional, I sacrificed scalability to improve my shipping speed), and this is where SQLite shines. With a DB located on the local NVMe disk, a 5$ VPS can deliver a whopping 60K reads and 20K writes per second. — [Nikita Melkozerov](https://twitter.com/meln1k/status/1812116658300817477) Posted [13th July 2024](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/13/) at 11:44 pm ## Recent articles * [Imitation Intelligence, my keynote for PyCon US 2024](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/14/pycon/) \- 14th July 2024 * [Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/13/give-people-something-to-link-to/) \- 13th July 2024 * [Weeknotes: a livestream, a surprise keynote and progress on Datasette Cloud billing](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/2/weeknotes/) \- 2nd July 2024 * [Open challenges for AI engineering](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/27/ai-worlds-fair/) \- 27th June 2024 * [Building search-based RAG using Claude, Datasette and Val Town](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/21/search-based-rag/) \- 21st June 2024 * [Weeknotes: Datasette Studio and a whole lot of blogging](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/19/datasette-studio/) \- 19th June 2024