You need some debug information to get accurate backtraces. But you can discard the rest of the debug information that you don't need. The article actually mentions this a little bit near the end, starting around:
> For example, if you would only like accurate unwinding then you can retain only .debug_frame and .debug_line.
> For example, if you would only like accurate unwinding then you can retain only .debug_frame and .debug_line.