Andreessen Horowitz April 14, 2023
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 we’d lose items in our shopping carts. Our online accounts would get lost, duplicated, or corrupted, and become inoperable.
In fact, the transactional database (generally called OLTP — short for online transaction processing — database) has been so central to application development that, over time, it consumed more and more application functionality. However, microservices and other modern application architectures introduced new complexities into application design: Developers needed to manage data across different...
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