> Can this be used as an embedded lib instead of a separate binary as an API?

Did not architect explicitly for that, but should be viable. You could use the `Backend` directly, is what the REST handlers call https://docs.rs/s2-lite/latest/s2_lite/backend/struct.Backen...

Happy to accept contributions that make this more ergonomic.

> And am I understanding correctly that if I pointed 2 running instances of s2-lite at the same place in s3 there would be problems since slatedb is single writer?

SL8 will fence the older writer, thanks to S3 conditional writes. I think there would be potential for stale reads until the fencing happens...

ED: Fresh discussion in https://discord.com/channels/1232385660460204122/12323856609...

The stale read potential can be mitigated, https://github.com/s2-streamstore/s2/issues/91