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Litestream

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Go-based utility by Ben Johnson that streams every change from a SQLite WAL to any S3-compatible object store. Wrona's team configures Litestream to replicate every second to Cloudflare R2, keeping an effectively live copy and enabling point-in-time recovery within the last 48 hours. Also used to replicate the production/staging database into the development environment with a single command.

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service
talk Kamal is not harder than your PaaS
about
Litestream tool
Demo SQLite Rails app uses Litestream as a Kamal accessory to replicate to R2.
talk How (and why) to run SQLite in production
about
Litestream tool
Talk recommends Litestream and the litestream Ruby gem for resilience.
takeaway Run Litestream from day one
about
Litestream tool
The takeaway recommends Litestream specifically.
takeaway Run Litestream as a Kamal accessory
about
Litestream tool
Takeaway is about configuring Litestream.
talk From PostgreSQL to SQLite in Rails
about
Litestream tool
Used for continuous backup/replication to Cloudflare R2.
question How do you handle backups with SQLite?
about
Litestream tool
Primary backup mechanism discussed.
person Josef Strzibny
recommends
Litestream tool
Recommends running Litestream as a Kamal accessory for SQLite backups.
person Stephen Margheim
recommends
Litestream tool
Strongly recommends running Litestream from day one for SQLite backups.
tool Litestream
related_to
Cloudflare R2 tool
Wrona's team uses R2 as the Litestream replication target because its pricing makes continuous streaming essentially free.
tool Litestream
uses
SQLite tool
Litestream streams the SQLite WAL to S3-compatible storage.
tool litestream-ruby
uses
Litestream tool
The Ruby gem wraps the Litestream Go executable.
person Wojtek Wrona
uses
Litestream tool
Production backup/replication of the SQLite DB to Cloudflare R2.
person Ben Johnson
works_on
Litestream tool
Ben Johnson created Litestream.
role: creator

Provenance

Created in
How (and why) to run SQLite in production — Stephen Margh... 2026-04-17 23:20
Last updated in
From PostgreSQL to SQLite in Rails — Wojtek Wrona at wroc... 2026-04-18 06:46
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