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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

AI and the ironies of automation - Part 1

November 21, 2025
Top of a maple tree with red leaves
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Simplify! - Part 12

Accidental complexity at an implementation level

September 11, 2020 Uwe Friedrichsen

14 minute read

Table and chairs covered with snow

In the previous post, I completed the consideration of accidental complexity at the architecture level by discussing potential countermeasures to the drivers of accidental complexity which I discussed in the post before.

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    • Rethinking IT
    • complexity
    • robustness

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
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Uwe Friedrichsen

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Recent Posts

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

AI and the ironies of automation - Part 1

November 21, 2025
Top of a maple tree with red leaves
View more posts

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I'm Uwe, travelling the world of IT for many years. Worked in many roles in and around IT. Sharing my thought, ideas and insights here. Explorer. Connector. Sharer. Coder. Writer. Human. More. Order may vary.

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