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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.