A groundbreaking EuroSys '23 paper introduces Morty, a system that revolutionizes serializable transactions by selectively re-executing only stale portions of workloads instead of aborting entire operations. This approach slashes contention-induced delays, achieving up to 96x higher throughput than Spanner-style systems under load. Morty's fusion of continuation-passing style APIs and speculative ordering offers a paradigm shift for high-performance distributed databases.