Comment by sgbeal

> Why? Because once your app gets more than _n_ users you will run into scaling problems and then you end up with huge tech debt

Anecdote: the sqlite forum runs on a single sqlite db and has well over 1500 users. Similarly, the sqlite source site is heavily visited by thousands of folks and actively used in write mode by its developers. It sibling project, the Fossil SCM, also runs entirely from a single sqlite db.

sqlite db forum stats: <https://sqlite.org/forum/reports>