https://luth.io/tags/sqld/ Recent content in Sqld on Luther Monson Hugo en Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:14:00 -0700 https://luth.io/blog/2026/08/clustered-sqlite-sqld-sidecar/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:14:00 -0700 https://luth.io/blog/2026/08/clustered-sqlite-sqld-sidecar/ <p>Most PHP sites I have run in the last twenty years did not need a MySQL server. They needed <em>a</em> database, and MySQL was the one every framework spoke. With <a href="https://github.com/ephpm/ephpm">ePHPm</a> I have been trying to get rid of that server for the common case. The piece that makes it possible is <a href="https://github.com/ephpm/litewire">litewire</a>. PHP connects with plain <code>pdo_mysql</code>. litewire speaks the MySQL wire protocol, and the queries land in a SQLite file. WordPress and Laravel don&rsquo;t know the difference. No <code>mysqld</code>, no child processes, just <code>ephpm</code> and a <code>.db</code> file.</p>