How Rancher Came Up With the Idea of Replacing SED With SQLite

The biggest hassle of managing Kubernetes has always been and still basically is SED because it's a persistent system. So the motivation for swapping out SED with something else was always that I'd like to be able to run it on RDS. And so K3S came along where we then found a perfect use case for it, which madeKubernetes much more lightweight,. The challenge is doing it without auth. There's a question here. How did you come up with the idea of replacing SED with SQLite? It's a super technical one, but that's a fun story.