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In search of resilience

March 13, 2026
Sunset over the sea

You are not left behind

February 20, 2026
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Forget technical debt

January 30, 2026
View across some ruins integrated in a park (seen in Budapest, Hungary)

We default to addition

January 9, 2026
Pile of rocks looming behind a concrete wall

AI and the ironies of automation - Part 2

December 12, 2025
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The microservices fallacy - Part 7

Actual reasons for microservices

January 8, 2021 Uwe Friedrichsen

10 minute read

Red glowing clouds at dusk

This post discusses actual reasons that justify the use of microservices.

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    • accelerate
    • disparate NFRs

The microservices fallacy - Part 6

Debunking the technology migration fallacy

December 18, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

8 minute read

Toadstool on the forest soil

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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    • microservices
    • fallacy
    • reusability
    • autonomy

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
    • chaos engineering
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Uwe Friedrichsen

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Recent Posts

In search of resilience

March 13, 2026
Sunset over the sea

You are not left behind

February 20, 2026
Graffiti at a house wall (seen in Porto, Portugal)

Forget technical debt

January 30, 2026
View across some ruins integrated in a park (seen in Budapest, Hungary)

We default to addition

January 9, 2026
Pile of rocks looming behind a concrete wall

AI and the ironies of automation - Part 2

December 12, 2025
View across several bushes and trees
View more posts

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