--- title: "Skip the API, Ship Your Database" url: https://daily.dev/posts/skip-the-api-ship-your-database-bggcfhvjv source_url: https://fly.io/blog/skip-the-api/ type: article source: "Fly.io" published: 2023-09-13T14:28:24.278Z updated: 2023-09-13T14:28:22.016Z tags: ["database", "sql", "sqlite"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 13 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Skip the API, Ship Your Database **[Fly.io](https://daily.dev/sources/flydotio)** · 4 min read · 13 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Skip the API, Ship Your Database, and LiteFS Cloud: managed backups and point-in-time restores for LiteFS. LiteFS uses a program called Corrosion that gossips state between all our servers. It tracks VM statuses, health checks, and a plethora of other information for each server. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@idoshamun** · 2 upvotes > Somewhat full cycle in distributed systems. I'd use this approach very cautiously. Leaking database schema is not a joke ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#sql](https://daily.dev/tags/sql), [#sqlite](https://daily.dev/tags/sqlite) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/skip-the-api-ship-your-database-bggcfhvjv)