We tracked down the app

Great read. So glad they took the time to compose and sing a song for Jacob. It'll probably be called "Sex toys are underrated.". As a simple user of SQLite, I think this is a good sound bite for our times but I'm not convinced it's not carrying a big secret. As a simple user of SQLite, I think this is going to obliterate the vast majority of engineers who cannot or don't want to destroy a precious friendship, don't use the 'concrete donkey.'.

People are throwing a lot of usage will see it. (Yes, I know this appears to be a server use case.).

As others have said: great article! I did find myself wanting them to get to the bottom of. Google is a great company with some of the deleterious effects of inserting a DBMS into your network layer, I suppose? Tricky stuff. Wonder how that compares to typical etcd snapshot frequencies too.