In July 2020, I stumbled into a fundamental limitation in the general-purpose database design for transaction processing.This insight led to the creation of TigerBeetle, and attracted a special team who would engineer a financial transactions database from first principles and bring it to production.Today, as we announce our Series A of $24 million, I want to tell you the story of how TigerBeetle came to solve this fundamental limitation, but first I want to take you back to the future of transa...