> I get the desire to experiment with interesting things, but it seems like such a huge waste of time to avoid having to learn the most basic aspects of MySQL or postgres.
For server-based database engines you can still make an argument on shedding network calls. It's dubious, but you can.
What's baffling is that the blogger tries to justify not picking up SQLite claiming it might have features that they don't need, which is absurd and does not justify anything.
The blog post reads like a desperate attempt to start with a poor solution to a fictitions problem and proceed to come up with far-fetched arguments hoping to reject the obvious solution.
If you want to shed network calls, the easiest solution would be to just run postgres or MySql on the same server and connecting to it via Unix domain socket. So even if SQLite wasn't an option network overhead isn't a good argument
For server-based database engines you can still make an argument on shedding network calls. It's dubious, but you can.
What's baffling is that the blogger tries to justify not picking up SQLite claiming it might have features that they don't need, which is absurd and does not justify anything.
The blog post reads like a desperate attempt to start with a poor solution to a fictitions problem and proceed to come up with far-fetched arguments hoping to reject the obvious solution.