Demystifying the "Local-Only" Myth of SQLite Historically, SQLite has been relegated to the role of an embedded database for mobile clients, IoT devices, and local development environments. Conventional wisdom dictated that for any serious production-grade web application, a client-server database like PostgreSQL or MySQL was mandatory. However, this assumption overlooks a massive shift in modern hardware architecture. With the ubiquity of high-speed NVMe SSDs, ultra-fast local storage, and the ...