[geraldwhen]

“An application controls its database.”

You’ve fully misunderstood what I said. When you have 500 applications, the graph of calls for how any one api resolves will go deep. Api1 calls 2 calls 3 and so on.

Vs creating an organization wide proper way to share and manage data.

[robertlagrant]

The number of applications doesn't need to create depth in the API layer. They're not related. If I have a service that sends emails, whether I have one or a thousand applications calling it doesn't matter.