Computer Science 101: "Don't build your own database!!! Ever!!"
Translation: accept slow queries, bolt on caches, babysit pipelines, and call it "architecture".
I rejected that.
Databases shouldn't fight developers.
They should model live application state, stay correct as data changes, and be predictable under pressure.
So I am building ReifyDB.
Sometimes the real 10x move isn't scaling your stack, it is questioning why the stack looks that way at all.