Extremely helpful. I've been eagerly awaiting v0.5 but have been holding off on deploying it until I had more confidence that it would work and be stable. Reading this, I'm definitely glad that I waited.
The change log is massive, so this is not unexpected to have a few issues. Maybe the two-year backlog of features and updates should have been batched into a few releases instead of this one big one? But there was a beta, and this is ripping the bandaid.
With Litestream v0.5.0 doing the replication, you'll get some transient read failures that really shouldn't happen.
If you build Litestream from head (or wait for v0.5.1), that'll be fixed. You'll still have similar issues around the time of a snapshot, if you keep only one snapshot.
Other than that, I'm pretty confident it just works. But the performance probably sucks. I need to add a layer of caching. But that's it.
> One of the benefits of Litestream 0.5.0 is that there’s now an official litestream Docker image. All of my previous Docker containers required a lot of boilerplate to download the correct version of Litestream and make it available in my container, but now it reduces to a single Dockerfile line
There’s been an official Litestream container image for over 3 years at this point (since version 0.3.4, it’s at the same Docker Hub as 0.5.0).
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 19.5 ms ] threadhttps://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream/releases/tag/v0.5....
https://fly.io/blog/litestream-revamped/#lightweight-read-re...
But the concept is really cool, and it's workable. I already have a version that mostly works.
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/tree/litestream/litest...
With Litestream v0.5.0 doing the replication, you'll get some transient read failures that really shouldn't happen.
If you build Litestream from head (or wait for v0.5.1), that'll be fixed. You'll still have similar issues around the time of a snapshot, if you keep only one snapshot.
Other than that, I'm pretty confident it just works. But the performance probably sucks. I need to add a layer of caching. But that's it.
Livestream, sqlite and caddy are incredibly at making single box/vps ops a breeze.
There’s been an official Litestream container image for over 3 years at this point (since version 0.3.4, it’s at the same Docker Hub as 0.5.0).