I just had an ah ha moment, thank you for that. It looks to me like the trade off is deciding where to put business logic based on what needs to access it. The

I just had an ah ha moment, thank you for that. It looks to me like the trade off is deciding where to put business logic based on what needs to access it. The setup you describe sounds great as long as all access to it is through your ORM. I usually assume access from multiple applications is going to happen at some point.