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They tried really hard to not use a distributed SQL database.

• venantius 3y ago
  Because it’s not a great fit for an event driven architecture.
• adampk 3y ago
  Yes it would be very hard to make a bad technology choice when you thought through the whole system
• tadfisher 3y ago
  As long as your balance is eventually consistent, what's the harm? ;)
  • lifty 3y ago
    They specifically mention why they went with FoundationDB, and that is because it's strictly serializable.