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hello,

as always: imho. (!)

while i personally really love SQLite for a lot of use-cases, i wouldn't recommend / use it "in serious production" for a django-application which does more than a simple "hello world".

why!? concurrency ... especially if your application attracts user or you just want to scale your deployment horizontally etc. ;))

so in my opinion:

* why not use sqlite for development and functionality testing

* postgresql or mariadb/mysql for (serious) production-instances :)

just my 0.02€





Yeah, I've also found that foregoing Postgres is one step too far. It's just too useful, especially with Listen/Notify making it a good task queue broker. SQLite is great, but Postgres is definitely worth the extra dependency.

You distilled the point well. SQLite is great, but Postgres still hits the sweet spot.



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