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Modern Transactional Stack

by Yoko Li, Martin Casado, Satish Talluri, a16z a16z.com published 2023-04-14

Transactional databases have long been the most critical component of application design. Why? Because a steadfast database is generally the ultimate enforcement point for correctness in a messy, distributed world. Without them we’d overpay and undercharge. We’d lose riders trying to get home from the airport, and…

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