🔧 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...