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It has never been about code

April 3, 2026
Chocolate plates

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
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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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    • Architecture
    • microservices
    • fallacy
    • simplicity

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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    • Architecture
    • microservices
    • fallacy
    • scalability

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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    • Architecture
    • microservices
    • fallacy
    • simplify

The value of speed

Why shorter IT lead times are inevitable

October 30, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

17 minute read

Shoes being on the beach

The speed of the IT value chain often is a topic in discussions I have with decision makers. The common theme is: The IT value chain is too slow. We need to deliver faster.

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    • Rethinking IT
    • accelerate
    • simplify
    • value
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Uwe Friedrichsen

Uwe Friedrichsen

Web site and blog. Writing about IT most of the time.

Recent Posts

It has never been about code

April 3, 2026
Chocolate plates

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
View more posts

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Hi, I am Uwe, travelling the world of IT for many years. I worked in many roles in and around IT. Sharing my thought, ideas and insights here.

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