
101: Replicating SQLite using Litestream with Ben Johnson
Thinking Elixir Podcast
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LightStream: A Hack for SQLite Databases
light stream is an integration, but it's kind of a hack really. The idea is when you write a transaction to a database, you don't want to just overwrite the old data that you had because for two reasons. What LightStream does is basically track that write a head log. Every time you write a page, every second LightStream will actually detect that and then send it up to S3 as a backup.
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