Databases are one of the fundamental building blocks for cloud-native apps. And with so many types of databases to choose from, it's important to understand their consistency models so that we can make smart choices. But with acronyms such as ACID and BASE, making sense of them can feel like swimming in a big bowl of database soup. Spoiler alert, they have nothing to do with high school chemistry class. In this episode of Mobycast, Jon and Chris kick off a three-part series where we dive deep on this database soup. In part 1, we learn about transaction processing, the ACID acronym and say hello to strong consistency.