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Thoughts on AI and software development - Part 3

June 6, 2025
Black swan swimming on water

Thoughts on AI and software development - Part 2

May 16, 2025
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April 25, 2025
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(Un)coupling in distributed systems - Part 2

April 4, 2025
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March 14, 2025
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The microservices fallacy - Part 4

Debunking the reusability and autonomy fallacies

December 4, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

8 minute read

Orange-colored flowers

This post discusses two widespread fallacies – that microservices improve reusability (and thus pay for themselves after a short while) and that microservices improve team autonomy.

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The importance of resilience engineering

What we can learn from the latest AWS outage

November 27, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

16 minute read

Antique staircase (seen in Vienna, Austria)

There was a bigger outage at AWS this week, and of course media coverage was big again. E.g., “Amazon Web Services outage hobbles businesses”, titles the Washington Post, just to name one.

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    • distributed systems
    • resilience
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The microservices fallacy - Part 3

Debunking the simplicity fallacy

November 20, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

14 minute read

Snail sitting on a leaf

This post discusses the widespread fallacy that solutions become simpler with microservices.

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The microservices fallacy - Part 2

Debunking the scalability fallacy

November 13, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

5 minute read

Cinnamon buns on a baking tray

This post discusses the widespread fallacy that microservices are needed to tackle scaling issues.

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The microservices fallacy - Part 1

The origins and fallacies of microservices

November 6, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

6 minute read

Mushroom colony on the forest soil

This is a blog series discussing the fallacies of microservices. It complements a talk I have given.

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Recent Posts

Thoughts on AI and software development - Part 3

June 6, 2025
Black swan swimming on water

Thoughts on AI and software development - Part 2

May 16, 2025
(Humanized) steel crow sculptures

Thoughts on AI and software development - Part 1

April 25, 2025
Steel spider sculpture in a park

(Un)coupling in distributed systems - Part 2

April 4, 2025
A jellyfish lying on the beach

(Un)coupling in distributed systems - Part 1

March 14, 2025
Rock covered by clams
View more posts

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