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title: "💭 Why I Built Litestream - Litestream"
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date: 2023-09-30
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As applications scale to the edge, to put compute as close to the user as possible, database queries back to the master node get slower and slower.  Enter sqlite replication, put the database wtih the application code and replicate from master.

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    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
    about someone else's content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count=2 data-reading-time=3 data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a>