diff --git a/src/db/init.ts b/src/db/init.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..424e73f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/db/init.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+import { readdir } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { openPostMarkdownFile, parsePostMetadata } from '@blog/post/post-reader';
+import { PostMeta } from '@blog/model/PostMeta';
+import db from '@blog/db/memory';
+
+const createPostSql: string = `
+CREATE TABLE posts (
+  id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
+  title TEXT NOT NULL,
+  slug TEXT NOT NULL,
+  is_draft INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
+  description TEXT,
+  published_date DATE,
+  raw_content TEXT
+)
+`;
+
+const createAuthorSql: string = `
+CREATE TABLE authors (
+  id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
+  name TEXT,
+  email TEXT
+)
+`;
+
+const createTagsSql: string = `
+CREATE TABLE tags (
+  id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
+  tag TEXT UNIQUE
+)
+`;
+
+const createPostsTagsSql: string = `
+CREATE TABLE posts_tags (
+  tag_id TEXT,
+  post_id INTEGER,
+
+  FOREIGN KEY (tag_id) REFERENCES tags(id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
+  FOREIGN KEY (post_id) REFERENCES posts(id) ON DELETE CASCADE 
+)
+`;
+
+const createPostHtmlCache = `
+CREATE TABLE post_html_cache (
+  id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
+  post_id INTEGER,
+  content TEXT,
+
+  FOREIGN KEY (post_id) REFERENCES posts(id) ON DELETE CASCADE
+);
+`;
+
+export async function setupDb(): Promise<void> {
+  console.log({ message: "Setting up the Database..." });
+  console.log({ message: "Creating the Posts table..." });
+  db.query(createPostSql).run();
+
+  console.log({ message: "Creating Authors table..." });
+  db.query(createAuthorSql).run();
+
+  console.log({ message: "Creating Tags table..." });
+  db.query(createTagsSql).run();
+
+  console.log({ message: "Creating Post and Tags relationships..." });
+  db.query(createPostsTagsSql).run();
+
+  console.log({ message: "Creating HTML cache table..." });
+  db.query(createPostHtmlCache).run();
+}
+
+
+export async function readPostsToDatabase(postPath: string): Promise<void> {
+  const posts = new Array();
+  const createPostSql: string = `
+INSERT INTO posts (title, slug, description, is_draft, published_date, raw_content)
+VALUES ($title, $slug, $description, $is_draft, $published_date, $raw_content);
+`;
+
+  const fileList = await readdir(postPath);
+  for (const file of fileList) {
+    const contents: string = await openPostMarkdownFile(postPath + "/" + file);
+    const post = parsePostMetadata(contents);
+  
+    const postQuery = db.prepare(createPostSql);
+    postQuery.run({
+      $title: post.meta.title,
+      $slug: file,
+      $description: post.meta.description,
+      $is_draft: post.meta.draft ?? false,
+      $published_date: post.meta.date.toString(),
+      $raw_content: post.content
+    });
+    console.log({ message: "Added " + post.meta.title + " to the database." });
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/db/memory.ts b/src/db/memory.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a48a547
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/db/memory.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+import { Database } from 'bun:sqlite';
+
+const db = new Database(":memory:");
+export default db;
diff --git a/src/index.tsx b/src/index.tsx
index 7436dbd..2bae649 100644
--- a/src/index.tsx
+++ b/src/index.tsx
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { Page } from '@blog/templates/Page';
 import home from '@blog/routes/home';
 import posts from '@blog/routes/posts';
 import type { SiteMeta } from '@blog/model/SiteMeta';
+import { setupDb, readPostsToDatabase } from '@blog/db/init'; 
 
 declare module 'hono' {
   interface ContextRenderer {
@@ -11,25 +12,38 @@ declare module 'hono' {
   }
 }
 
-const app = new Hono();
+async function main() {
+  console.log({ message: "Starting the Blog application..." });
+  const app = new Hono();
 
-// Render the JSX views
-app.get(
-  '*',
-  jsxRenderer(
-    ({ children, meta }) => {
-      return (<Page meta={meta}>{children}</Page>);
-    },
-    {
-      docType: true
-    }
-  )
-);
+  // Render the JSX views
+  console.log({ message: "Bootstrapping the view layer..." });
+  app.get(
+    '*',
+    jsxRenderer(
+      ({ children, meta }) => {
+        return (<Page meta={meta}>{children}</Page>);
+      },
+      {
+        docType: true
+      }
+    )
+  );
 
-// read all posts
-// create listing of posts
+  // Bootstrap the Database
+  console.log({ message: "Bootstrapping the database..." });
+  setupDb();
+  await readPostsToDatabase(__dirname + "/../posts");
 
-app.route('/', home);
-app.route('/posts', posts);
+  // read all posts
+  // create listing of posts
+
+  console.log({ message: "Bootstrapping the routes..." });
+  app.route('/', home);
+  app.route('/posts', posts);
+
+  return app;
+}
+
+export default main();
 
-export default app;
diff --git a/src/post/post-reader.ts b/src/post/post-reader.ts
index bf2ab34..6fbcae2 100644
--- a/src/post/post-reader.ts
+++ b/src/post/post-reader.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ export function parsePostMetadata(post: string): PostMetaWithRawContent {
 
 export async function getPostList(path: string): Promise<PostMeta[]> {
   const postList: PostMeta[] = new Array<PostMeta>();
-  console.log(path);
   const dir = await readdir(path);
 
   if (!dir.length) {