> Imagine all the wonderful things you could build if you never had to serialize data into SQL queries.
This exists in sufficiently mature Actor model[0] implementations, such as Akka Event Sourcing[1], which also addresses:
> But then comes the important part: how do you recover when your process crashes? It turns out that answer is easy, periodically just take a snapshot of everything in RAM.
Intrinsically and without having to create "a new architecture for web development". There are even open source efforts which explore the RAFT protocol using actors here[2] and here[3].
0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Actor_model
1 - https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/typed/persistence.html