I Built My Backend on SQLite. Then I Deleted It.

In Part 7 , I taught my server how to die gracefully. It felt production-ready. Auth, rate limiting, caching, clean shutdown — the API was doing real work. I said Part 8 would be "Docker + Postgres." I was wrong. Postgres alone deserved its own post, because swapping the database under a running backend taught me more in a weekend than the three weeks before it. Then I tried to run my tests in CI. And everything broke. The SQLite Honeymoon When I started this project, SQLite was the obvious ch