API Strategy & Practice Conference 2017

Code reuse is commonly perceived to be an effective means of achieving efficiency. One of the main principles in Microservice Architecture is directly questioning this approach, however, advocating to prioritize "replaceability and upgradeability over reuse". Following in this footsteps we further explore the concept of software reuse, especially in large, enterprise settings and come to some unorthodox conclusions that maybe reuse is actually not the most efficient way, at least not always. To keep things sane, we also suggest some guard rails to avoid chaos, in case you decide to de-prioritize reuse.