Microservices all the way down – An interview with Michael Nygard
10/17/18
In this interview with codecentric CTO Uwe Friedrichsen, Michael Nygard shares his views on Microservices and when to adopt them. Read more
Posts by Uwe Friedrichsen
The broken promise of re-use
10/14/15
Re-use is the holy grail of IT: whenever a new architectural paradigm comes to IT town, “re-use” is one of... Read more
The need for speed – A story about DevOps, microservices, continuous delivery and cloud computing
05/27/15
Currently we can observe three mega-drivers that force IT into a dramatic change: Economic darwinism Digitization Disruptive technology All of... Read more
New slide decks available: Resilience patterns, Hystrix, beyond ACID transactions, CRDTs and DevOps for developers
04/06/14
This is a small post to inform you about some new slide decks that you can view online or download... Read more
Agile, Scrum and the nonsense about architects
11/17/13
Let me start this post with a bit of ranting: I am so tired to hear or read the same... Read more
Scalability, fault tolerance and emergent architecture
06/17/12
You might ask yourself how emergent architecture is related to scalability and fault tolerance. To be honest: Not at all.... Read more
Architecture is a compass, not a blueprint
12/27/11
It’s christmas holidays and as many other people I use that time to goof off a bit – no big... Read more
Cloud: An innovation or just old wine in new skins?
06/12/11
I read statements like “the cloud isn’t actually new”, or a bit harder “it’s just old wine in new skins”... Read more
We need more inline comments!
09/24/10
Inline comments within code are “evil” and everybody who still uses inline comments today is a really, really bad developer... Read more
Software Architecture Workshop with Dana Bredemeyer and Meet the Experts
09/01/10
All right, now I’m trying to write the probably shortest post ever published in the codecentric blog … 😉 So,... Read more
Perfection in the IT – or “less is more”
04/20/10
Just a thought … A few days I read the following citation: “Perfection is reached not when there is no... Read more
Agility and EAM
04/16/10
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) is an important issue for most enterprises, not only the big ones. But its implementation still... Read more
The fairy tale of the agile developer
03/18/10
What is the common story that you usually hear about agility? Yes, most of the times it is something like... Read more
Is there a difference between architecture and design?
02/16/10
Meanwhile, there is a debate for a long time whether architecture and design are the same thing or not. The... Read more
meet the experts – architecture | November-27-2009 – a reflection
12/05/09
This is a reflection of the meet the experts – architecture that took place at codecentric in Solingen at November-27-2009.... Read more
The conventional project manager in Scrum
10/21/09
Many “conventional” project manager are quite offish about Scrum or they even reject it completely. One of the reasons for... Read more
meet the experts – architecture | November-27-2009
09/18/09
This is the announcement of the meet the experts – architecture at November-27-2009. Since the whole event including all talks... Read more
Impressions from the SET 2009 in Zurich
05/14/09
Last week I attended the SET 2009 in Zurich. The conference – organized by SIGS DATACOM – is not as... Read more
JAX 2009 – Agile Day
04/21/09
Yesterday I attended the Agile Day on the JAX 2009 in Mainz. I do not want to rate the talks... Read more
TOGAF applied
12/26/08
Meanwhile I know TOGAF for several years but I never found the opportunity to use it in its whole breadth... Read more
Wikipedia is always right
12/10/08
If we look for a definition of a term or for an explanation of a special topic, where do we... Read more