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The reusability fallacy - Part 2

Why the reusability promise does not work

Uwe Friedrichsen

13 minute read

Boats in a harbor at sunset

In the first part of this blog series about reusability I discussed why all the reusability ideas break that root in the physical world and that are based on the idea you can save money in the production process by using reusable/standardized parts. We have seen that the actual production process in IT is already practically optimal. Thus, if reusability can help to save time, costs and efforts at all, it can only do so in the design process, which – as we have also seen – is…

The reusability fallacy - Part 1

Why the reusability promise does not work

Uwe Friedrichsen

10 minute read

Row of potted plants with a wooden bird sculpture in the middle

After several posts discussing different aspects of IT as a whole, I would like to start discussing another thread of thinking: software architecture. This is a huge topic and I pondered for quite a while where to start. Finally, I decided to start with debunking the long-lived architectural myth of reusability because this makes it easier to understand some of the ideas that I will discuss in later posts.