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Thoughts on AI and software development - Part 4

June 27, 2025
Animals made from straw and bast exhibited on a table

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
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Simplify! - Part 11

Accidental complexity at an architectural level (part 2)

September 4, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

17 minute read

Budding leaf in the spring

This post is about mitigation techniques regarding accidental complexity in the architectural level.

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    • Rethinking IT
    • Architecture
    • complexity
    • robustness

Simplify! - Part 10

Accidental complexity at an architectural level (part 1)

August 28, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

16 minute read

Duck with ducklings on a lawn

In the previous post, I discussed the technology explosion we could observe in the recent years, its drivers, how it often creates unneeded complexity, reinforcing drivers and what we can do about it.

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    • Rethinking IT
    • Architecture
    • complexity
    • robustness

The laws of architectural work

Understanding architectural decisions

August 21, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

9 minute read

Floor mosaic (seen at Géllert Thermal Bath, Budapest, Hungaria)

After completing the short “OSS” blog series series and before returning to the “Simplify!” blog series that grew quite a lot while writing, I would like to discuss a completely different topic. I call it “the two first laws of architectural work”.

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    • Architecture
    • laws
    • trade-offs

Open Source Software - Part 3

OSS in a cloud native world

August 14, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

11 minute read

Pink flowers

In the previous post, I discussed the two most widespread misconceptions about OSS, that OSS is for free and that it does not create any lock-in.

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    • Architecture
    • Rethinking IT
    • oss
    • cloud native

Open Source Software - Part 2

Misconceptions about OSS

August 7, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

15 minute read

Green leaves

In the previous post, I discussed the rise of OSS, the positive effects it had and how it changed software development. At the end of the post I mentioned that also some misconceptions sneaked in. These I will discuss in this post.

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    • Architecture
    • Rethinking IT
    • oss
    • misconceptions
    • TCO
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Recent Posts

Thoughts on AI and software development - Part 4

June 27, 2025
Animals made from straw and bast exhibited on a table

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
View more posts

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