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It is your fault if your application is down

October 31, 2025
(Big) zucchinis on a table

Solving the wrong problem

October 10, 2025
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The process deadlock

September 19, 2025
Bee flying between lavender blossoms

A note about eventual consistency - Part 2

August 29, 2025
Ducks in the surf

A note about eventual consistency - Part 1

August 8, 2025
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The microservices fallacy - Part 6

Debunking the technology migration fallacy

December 18, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

8 minute read

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This post discusses the fallacy that microservices make technology changes easier.

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    • microservices
    • fallacy
    • technology
    • migration

The microservices fallacy - Part 5

Debunking the better design fallacy

December 11, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

6 minute read

Mossy log on a meadow

This post discusses the widespread fallacy that microservices lead to better solution design.

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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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    • fallacy
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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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    • Architecture
    • distributed systems
    • resilience
    • chaos engineering

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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Uwe Friedrichsen

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Recent Posts

It is your fault if your application is down

October 31, 2025
(Big) zucchinis on a table

Solving the wrong problem

October 10, 2025
Funny wooden seagull in front of some plants

The process deadlock

September 19, 2025
Bee flying between lavender blossoms

A note about eventual consistency - Part 2

August 29, 2025
Ducks in the surf

A note about eventual consistency - Part 1

August 8, 2025
Geese on a meadow
View more posts

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