https://wjmaritz.dev/tags/incidents/Recent content in Incidents on Wilhelm MaritzHugo -- gohugo.ioenThu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://wjmaritz.dev/posts/sqlite-trap-epilogue/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://wjmaritz.dev/posts/sqlite-trap-epilogue/<p>I recently published <a href="https://wjmaritz.dev/posts/sqlite-in-production/">a post about running SQLite in production</a>, and the heart of it was a warning: on a platform with an ephemeral filesystem, a mis-pointed SQLite file means your database quietly ceases to exist on every redeploy. I even described my defence with some pride. The app refuses to accept a raw connection string and builds its own from a <code>SQLITE_DIR</code> environment variable, so nobody can get the path wrong.</p>