7 engineers on Hacker News describe using Litestream first-hand: 4 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Litestream keeps database relatively fresh, so it gets pulled on boot.”
endorse · production · callamdelaney · 2026-07-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With litestream it's much easier to have a backup on standby.”
endorse · production · andersmurphy · 2025-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run a fairly busy systems on sqlite + litestream... we never had issues”
endorse · production · anonzzzies · 2025-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“by switching to SQLite/Litestream > Cloudflare R2 replication”
endorse · production · mythz · 2025-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having run litestream in prod for 2+ years, I share all of these concerns.”
mixed · production · 2 yr · normie3000 · 2025-03-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“bridge.db ← (Litestream replication)”
neutral · production · Horos · 2025-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Whilst we're currently using Litestream for replication, we're currently evaluating switching to SQLite's native rsync”
neutral · production · mythz · 2024-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?