Pieter Levels Makes $600k a Year from Nomad List and Remote OK

Work is quite therapeutical for me because it keeps me creative, active and have goals. It keeps me on the rails really. Daily creative stuff to work on. My dad does the same as he's always renovating the house, doing woodworking, or studying film history. Just tasks to do.

Even if those tasks feeling meaningless and motivation drops (eg symptoms of sneaking up depression, especially during this crazy year), getting one task done usually helps to alleviate that and get back into it. That and a supportive girlfriend, working out a lot and trying to eat healthy.

I think it's much more common especially in entrepreneurship and ambitious pursuits than we think, so the moment I drop the word depression or anxiety people are like "omg are you okay?", but it's just a part of my and many people's existence I think.

So just so you know, while it might look like my brain has it together from afar, it's somewhat of a struggle on and off and will be the rest of my life, and I think for many people. And my work might just be a result of trying to deal with that, instead of an obstacle.

I would doubt that is what the creators of SQlite intend one to take away from their documentation:

"SQLite works great as the database engine for most low to medium traffic websites (which is to say, most websites). The amount of web traffic that SQLite can handle depends on how heavily the website uses its database. Generally speaking, any site that gets fewer than 100K hits/day should work fine with SQLite. The 100K hits/day figure is a conservative estimate, not a hard upper bound. SQLite has been demonstrated to work with 10 times that amount of traffic.

> The SQLite website (https://www.sqlite.org/) uses SQLite > itself, of course, and as of this writing (2015) it handles > about 400K to 500K HTTP requests per day, about 15-20% of > which are dynamic pages touching the database. Dynamic > content uses about 200 SQL statements per webpage. This > setup runs on a single VM that shares a physical server > with 23 others and yet still keeps the load average below > 0.1 most of the time." (Source: https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html)

So SQlite is quite a valid choice if you need a database and stay below ~500k HTTP requests per day. So it probably is "production ready" for many a site.

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