Going to take the risk and politely say I do not agree with this article at all.
Alternative advice: never allow more than one app to share the db and expose data through APIs, not queries. Then you can actually remove cruft and solve compatibility through API versioning that you probably need to do anyway. Also, never maintain more than two versions at the time.
Alternative advice: never allow more than one app to share the db and expose data through APIs, not queries. Then you can actually remove cruft and solve compatibility through API versioning that you probably need to do anyway. Also, never maintain more than two versions at the time.