When diagrams are created, they are often confusing and unclear. The C4 model consists of a hierarchical set of software architecture diagrams for context, containers, components, and code.

However, I’ve always found that visualizing the architecture and the data is far more productive and helps dictate a more intuitive architecture. For example, identifying the assets might yield a ...

Though participants are often particular users, they can also be roles (salesperson, developer, HR director, etc.) or even ancillary systems; in the case of a swim lane that may identify the ...

My preference for nearly any task is to break the system into a layered software diagram that starts at the low-level drivers and works its way up to the application code. Figure 2 shows an example of ...