Switching from etcd to SQLite: A Database Migration Story

Hi, it’s us again, the ones who used to store our database in a single JSON file on disk, and then moved to etcd. Time for another change! We’re going to put everything in a single file on disk again. As you might expect from our previous choice (and as many on the internet already predicted), we ran into some limits with etcd. Database size, write transaction frequency, of particular note: genera

[sora_h]

“Footnote: coworkers point out it’s April Fool’s today and request that I clarify this isn’t a joke. Joke’s on them: every day’s April Fool’s in the Tailscale Database Engineering department.”

[uzulla]

”it’s April Fool’s today and request that I clarify this isn’t a joke. Joke’s on them: every day’s April Fool’s in the Tailscale Database Engineering department.”