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supportengineer ◴[] No.45133233[source]
What if instead of API's for data sets, we simply placed a sqlite file onto a web server as a static asset, so you could just periodically do a GET and have a local copy.
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abtinf ◴[] No.45133319[source]
A few years ago someone posted a site that showed how to query portions of a SQLite file without having to pull the whole thing down.
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dbarlett ◴[] No.45133464[source]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630
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1. supportengineer ◴[] No.45133629[source]
>> I implemented a virtual file system that fetches chunks of the database with HTTP Range requests

That's wild!