Litestream/LiteFS author here. I agree that "cloud" is a bit ambiguous but Go & SQLite are quite powerful together and I don't think it's only for beginners. Both are fast and have low overhead. In addition to lower cost versus RDS, there's near-zero query latency which eliminates a lot of performance problems. You can comfortably run tens or hundreds of requests per second on minimal hardware (e.g. 256MB or 512MB instances). There's a lot of room for scaling up before you hit a performance ceiling.
I just watched your gophercon video on SQLite in production after seeing it in the article. Great talk. Anyone else who's interested can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcAYkriuQ1o
A request can have a large range of queries within it so I was trying to account for that. If your requests are lightweight and mostly reads, you can do 1,000+ req/sec on a 256MB instance. YMMV.
Normally I'm on the side of 'do you actually get that much traffic?' but yeah, a dashboard view can generate dozens of requests alone, each with multiple queries.
