# Chiseling in the Open

DevFeed: [Chiseling in the Open](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/chiseling-in-the-open-5910.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/chiseling-in-the-open-cc848860>)

Author: Glauber Costa

Published: 2022-05-20T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Turso Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/turso-blog.md>)

Topics: [Turso](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/turso.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [SQLite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sqlite.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [libSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/libsql.md>)

Tags: [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [chiselstrike](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chiselstrike.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [legacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/legacy.md>), [libsql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/libsql.md>), [sqlite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sqlite.md>), [turso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/turso.md>), [typescript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/typescript.md>)

## AI overview

The post describes an effort to simplify how application developers handle data layers by treating backend components, including the database, as code. It discusses Turso as a ground-up rewrite of SQLite and notes that Turso Cloud supports querying databases over the network and syncing them with devices and servers for offline use. The supplied text also identifies several changes in the newer Turso version, including the removal of edge replication and replacement of legacy libSQL SDKs with Turso-native SDKs.

## Source excerpt

Around 6 months ago, we embarked on a journey to come up with a simpler way for application developers to handle their data layers. By viewing everything in the backend as code -- from the database to...