c4-notation
pumla
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c4-notation
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Step outside the Happy Path
Start by formalizing the architecture. You don’t need heavy enterprise methodologies like TOGAF; use formats that fit the team and product. Frameworks like arc42 are suitable for complex systems, while simpler projects may only need C4 diagrams supplemented with a few additional visualizations.
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C4 Model - The Basics
Software Architecture is all about developing systems that scale and are maintainable. Clear visualizations will help teams to communicate the design effectively. The C4 model comes in handy for this task! But what is C4, and why should you care?
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Turning the Crank: Design as a Mechanical Process
https://c4model.com/ is very useful for this. :-)
I've told it before, but when we were doing some clean sheet work a while ago I decided to use the C4 model and drew out the obligatory "Context" diagram with "user" "phone" "laptop" "app" sort of stuff... and then two hours later realized that because we had both an online and a semi-disconnected mobile app that could be offline, certain things -had- to use a queue and expect an arbitrary amount of time for a task to run, and it completely changed how we thought about the core of how we implemented something pretty important.
Sold. :-)
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Vega – A declarative language for interactive visualization designs
What sort of maps are you wanting to build? https://c4model.com/ seems to be the more popular standard for this style at the moment. https://github.com/plantuml-stdlib/C4-PlantUML makes this somewhat easy to code out. (And I think most cloud providers have addons for it.)
- Ask HN: Best tool to create cloud architecture diagrams
- Ask HN: Visualize Software Architecture/Concepts
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Devs need system design tools, not diagramming tools
It sounded like it was working up to a C4 pitch but never got there. It bears a look exactly for this post's title.
https://c4model.com
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Book: Just Enough Software Architecture
Simon Brown is another person who has done a far better job than me of "democratizing" software architecture for developers. His talks [1] and workshops on architecture are exceptionally effective and his C4 architecture modeling language [2] is getting real traction.
I have youtube videos too [3] but they aren't as effective.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=simon+brown+arc...
[2] https://c4model.com/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqKmfi2Jh3uoMnZdaWmC...
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Ask HN: Guidelines for making clear architecture diagrams
Second this.
Reference for anyone looking I to it: https://c4model.com/
There is also quite a lot of options for helping create these diagrams. I've found https://structurizr.com/ to be the best of what I've tried so far.
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Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language
What you are describing sounds a lot like C4: https://c4model.com/
pumla
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How is your time spent in the architecture role?
I'm not aware of anything that's quite the same either. Visual modelling tools do the "model + views" thing, but you lock your data away behind their UI. C4-PlantUML provides a "C4-ish" DSL, but it's diagram focussed. pumla is an attempt to turn C4-PlantUML into something model-based, but it looks quite complicated. Archinsight is another text-based DSL, but it's not as full-featured as the Structurizr DSL and surrounding ecosystem.
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What diagraming tool do you use for software architecture diagrams (not software design diagrams)?
I haven't used this myself, and it looks a little complicated, but pumla seeks to create a model-based way to use PlantUML.
What are some alternatives?
excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
overarch - Overarch provides a data model for the holistic description of a software system, opening multiple use cases on the model data. Supports C4 and UML diagram generation with PlantUML.
backstage - Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
dbterd - Generate the ERD as a code from dbt artifacts
arc42.org-site - (jekyll-based) website for arc42.org - the template for communicating software architectures.
C4-PlantUML - C4-PlantUML combines the benefits of PlantUML and the C4 model for providing a simple way of describing and communicate software architectures
Azure-PlantUML - PlantUML sprites, macros, and other includes for Azure services
mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
archinsight - Simplicity in Code, Power in Design
modules.tf-lambda - Infrastructure as code generator - from visual diagrams created with Cloudcraft.co to Terraform
dsl - Structurizr DSL