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Mastering Matplotlib: A Step-by-Step Tutorial for Beginners
diagrams - Diagram as Code.
- How to draw beautiful software architecture diagrams
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Top 9 Architecture diagram software for cloud infrastructure
Mingrammer is an intriguing tool for individuals who prefer coding diagrams rather than creating them through graphical interfaces. It operates using Python code and offers a relatively quick setup process. It is compatible with AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, and Oracle. Notably, the project is open source and has garnered significant attention on GitHub with over 31K stars.
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Pravljenje AWS strukturnog diagrama
Ja sam koristio ovo: https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/
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Dynamically generate Cloud System Architecture diagram
That’s another option: https://diagrams.mingrammer.com Guessing with IaC done with Pulumi (Python) and this, it could pretty powerful and automatically generated.
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Top 7 diagrams as code tools for software architecture
Diagrams allow you to draw cloud system architectures using Python code.
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Do you like to draw while explaining stuff?
I use excalidraw a lot for short conversations. If I have to go into major detail I use diagrams https://diagrams.mingrammer.com
c4-notation
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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/
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Ask HN: How do you document complex software systems?
The C4 model [0] provides a mostly sensible structure and techniques for representing pure software systems across different abstraction levels.
For systems involving software and hardware, or other complex interfacing (both technology and bureaucracy) this starts to delve into the universe of systems engineering. There's a decent assembly of knowledge on that in the SEBoK [1].
As another commenter has already called out too, one of the most valuable sources of information is also _why_ a system is in its current form and _how_ that's changed over time. ADR's [2] really do a good job at nailing this for just about any scale.
[0]: https://c4model.com
[1]: https://sebokwiki.org
[2]: https://adr.github.io
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A View on Functional Software Architecture
There a various standards for documenting software architecture, like arc42 or C4. While useful and somewhat well-known (there is certainly a correlation here), here architecture documentation can be further simplified, particularly due to the self-similarity of project and component. Following is a small template, that can also serve as a project's and component's README:
- The C4 model for visualising software architecture
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Inkscape Cloud Architect
I would suggest that if your architecture diagrams are a bunch of icons provided by AWS/Azure/GCP with lines pointing at each other... you are doing it wrong.
The 'what does this box do for my system' is vastly more important than the 'which in vogue offering from my cloud provider implements it'.
I highly suggest folks take a look at the C4 Model: https://c4model.com/
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How to create interactive zoomable software architecture diagrams
We often use abstractions in software engineering to communicate complex architectures and software systems. In this article, we’ll discuss how abstractions are inherently hierarchical and how the C4 model provides a nested structure for defining your software architecture. We’ll then cover how IcePanel allows you to create interactive and zoomable diagrams for your audience to zoom in and out of different levels of technical detail.
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Architecture diagrams enable better conversations
You probably want https://c4model.com/ which explains what a C4 architecture diagram is. (See the first footnote in the article.)
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Do modern diagramming techniques play a crucial role in software development?
I looked at the book OP is talking about and it seems to be advocating 'C4' (https://c4model.com/). IMO this is the same kind of block diagrams we end up creating organically. I dunno that I'd call this 'modern' or anything special, it's just what everyone already does. I've done hundreds of these and not once has anyone ever mentioned 'C4' or anything being 'modern'. Shrug
What are some alternatives?
c4-draw.io - Draw.io template/diagram containing C4 Model shapes. Drawio Diagrams.net
excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
Graphviz - Simple Python interface for Graphviz
backstage - Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
obsidian-excalidraw-plugin - A plugin to edit and view Excalidraw drawings in Obsidian
C4-PlantUML - C4-PlantUML combines the benefits of PlantUML and the C4 model for providing a simple way of describing and communicate software architectures
mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
pygraphviz - Python interface to Graphviz graph drawing package
pumla - pumla - systematic re-use of model elements described with PlantUML
vscode-drawio - This unofficial extension integrates Draw.io (also known as diagrams.net) into VS Code.
plantuml - Generate diagrams from textual description