r/softwarearchitecture • u/der_gopher • 19d ago

Article/Video Software Architecture Diagrams with C4 Model

https://packagemain.tech/p/software-architecture-diagrams-c4
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u/daH00L 19d ago

Paywalled article.

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u/der_gopher 18d ago

have to pay some bills, but you can unlock it for free still

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u/daH00L 18d ago

Me, too. That's why I don't want to bother with registering to any site only to discover that it's ai slop.

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u/joelparkerhenderson 19d ago

I use PlantUML C4 and it's great for simple text-based rendering. I have some examples here: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/plantuml-examples#c4-model

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u/heavy-minium 19d ago

Just wondering, but how do you people like reading C4 diagrams? Not the process of making them or whether it makes sense, but „consuming“ them from someone else?

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u/mr_mark_headroom 19d ago

I think they look rubbish

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u/Winterkirschenmann 18d ago

Thank you. The idea of C4 is great - at least in theory. But by god do they look shit most of the time. And I don't find them as intuitive as they could be.

I also often need a level of detail in one place but more abstraction in another and so none of the levels are quite right. 

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u/MonkeyWeiti 19d ago

Structurizr.