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Thoughts on C4 Modeling? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by malloc@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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I saw “C4 Models” on the front page of HN. Decided to investigate further and noticed it was a recently developed diagramming paradigm.

I watched this talk by the author 4 years ago and was impressed with the ease of use and understanding. As well as the ability to develop your own notation.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=x2-rSnhpw0g

I am building another new project soon and will use this modeling system to design the high level overview.

Has anybody tried using this recently? Did other devs or stakeholders easily understand what you were trying to build given these diagrams?

More info: https://c4model.com/

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[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 4 points 1 year ago

It's fine. It's minimalist and gives consistency so it's good to have when you're dealing with a large number of products and don't want to deal with the particular individual diagramming styles of each product's lead. But I'd not use it beyond a starting point. It's no substitute for infrastructure diagrams or data/control flow diagrams for complex systems.

I've never delved into the last C though. That level of detail feels innane to me. But if you're visual and you have it fully automated it certainly can't hurt.