I am in the Database-as-a-Service world. I have to understand all the intricacies of the system, so people who choose to treat databases as black boxes don't h

I am in the Database-as-a-Service world. I have to understand all the intricacies of the system, so people who choose to treat databases as black boxes don't have to. There is only so far this abstraction holds. Stateless (immutable) code scales horizontally. ACID[1] doesn't. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID