Most likely this time A16z got invested in some bottom-of-the-heap Dev tools SAAS businesses.

> And a giant hairball of queues and retry logic is too brittle. To deal with this, we’ve seen, over the last few years, the emergence of new solutions that bring sanity back to transactional logic. They can be roughly categorized as either workflow-centric approaches or database-centric approaches.

Ok, using databases and queues is bad. So what is good then:

> we call this the application logic transactional platform (ALTP) approach because, ultimately, it extends OLTP transactions into the application

Really how much I will love to get few of my brain farts funded on being brilliant insights for typical enterprise application.