This is a beginner’s guide to hacking into Turso DB (formerly known as Limbo), the SQLite rewrite in Rust. In this short post, I will explore how to get familiar with Turso’s codebase, tooling, and tests (hereafter mentioned as just Turso). Disclosure: I work in the same organization where Turso is being developed. However, I am not a contributor (yet) and most of my work is on the Turso Server. I