Philip O'Toole

Philip O'Toole

rqlite Office Hours

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source distributed relational database implemented in Go, and which uses SQLite as its storage engine. I am excited to announce that I am starting Office Hours for rqlite, which will take place every Friday. This is…

Latest updates to rqlite 8.23

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. rqlite has been updated to versions 8.23.1 through 8.23.3, bringing a series of targeted improvements to refine its internal operations and enhance overall…

Mailpit adds support for rqlite

Mailpit, a multi-platform email testing tool, recently released support for rqlite. Mailpit is a popular application, with over 20 million Docker downloads. Many thanks to Ralph Slooten for adding the support. It’s great to see rqlite finding uses in an…

rqlite 8.16.0 released

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.16.0 comes with new support for backup and restore support for MinIO and other S3-compatible storage systems. Many thanks to Jason Tackaberry…

rqlite 8.15.0 released

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.15.0 fixes bugs related to auto-restore, improves backup performance, and adds some other minor enhancements.

New Helm support for rqlite

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Thanks to Jason Tackaberry, there are new Helm Charts for rqlite. Helm helps you manage Kubernetes applications — Helm Charts help you define, install, and upgrade…

rqlite 8.14.0 released

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. 8.14.0 improves Raft snapshotting control, as well as enables Automatic Clustering support for read-only nodes.

rqlite 8.13.4 released

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. 8.13.4 improves security and adds control for Server Name, which makes it easier to deploy and manage clusters running mutual TLS.

Talking rqlite on the Contributor podcast

I recently had the opportunity to discuss rqlite, open-source, and distributed systems with Eric Anderson of Scale. It was great to be part of Eric’s series of podcasts on open-source software, modern software development, and where the industry is going.…

rqlite 8.10.0 – load large SQLite datasets fast

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, utilizing SQLite as its storage engine. Release v8.10.0 introduces a new, high-performance, initialize-from-SQLite option. Known as Boot loading, it allows an rqlite node to be loaded with large (multi-GB)…

rqlite client libraries

rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. I’ve added a listing of known client libraries to rqlite.io, hopefully developers will find them useful.

New Log Management features in GCP

I recently co-authored a blog post for the Google Cloud Platform Blog, along with my colleague Keith Chen. In the blog post we spoke about our latest features, which help organizations builds their own multi-tenant log management features on Cloud…