Yeah, but you see, that doesn't work. You can't start hipster and switch to conservative. Because you have a number of specialist tools that are hard to reapply. As I said, you can see the cracks in the article. The use of diatomic is caveated.
I feel like someone has had a realization that they need to stop using tailored technologies. This article is them trying to put the breaks on the engineering culture of over-engineering. Or maybe diatomics success means everyone who works there is trying to write a new DB or something.