The C4 Model — A Way to Clear Architecture
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An introduction to the C4 (or C3) model for documenting software architecture, showing how to present a system clearly to different audiences from business stakeholders to developers. The talk explains the C4 approach and its low barrier to creating and reading architecture diagrams.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00C4 model intro
- 5:25C4 abstraction levels
- 10:41Bookstore system example
- 14:36Context diagram
- 19:12Container diagram
- 24:51Component structure
- 26:14Class diagrams rarely needed
- 28:23Keeping C4 current
- 30:08Q&A
- 31:11Q&A distributed env
- 32:59Q&A diagram updates
- 34:22Q&A readability
- 36:29Q&A business & DDD
- 38:56Summary
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