Visualising software architecture with the C4 model - Simon Brown, Agile on the Beach 2019

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as the introduction to C4 when people ask how to visualize and communicate software architecture.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Agile on the Beach

Topic

software architecture diagrams

Format

talk

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• These fail my litmus test, which is, "can a third-party look at the diagram and make sense of it without verbal explanation?" For a more formal approach to coherent diagrams and white boarding, I recommend the C4 model. It's conceptually simple and results in better …

• Recently stumbled upon [C4 Model]( [VIDEO] ), which seemed very promising. It builds on the failure of adopton of UMLs, and aim to be practical and communicative.

• If C4 is new to you too, I recommend their intro video: [VIDEO] . It feels like a very light ruleset over what we would do naturally when explaining a system to another engineer. That's great. Some of the ideas that stood out were: 1. …