They didn't know it was impossible, so they did it. — Mark Twain
In the software industry, we've been raised with a dogma: you must choose between Massive Performance (NoSQL, eventual consistency) and Domain Rigor (SQL, strong consistency, serializable).
We are told that locks, latencies, and ACID properties are the natural enemies of speed. That if you want to scale, you have to let go of your business invariants.
I decided to test another hypothesis. And I broke the myth.
The Result: 20,000+ Validated Transactions per Second
