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4 guides on c4 model. Practical writing from the team building Atlas, useful whether or not you buy anything.
UML and the C4 model are not rivals so much as tools for different jobs. Knowing which one fits the audience in front of you is the whole decision.
The C4 model describes software at four zoom levels, and Mermaid lets you write the top three as text: this guide covers the C4Context, C4Container, and C4Component syntax.
The genius of C4 is its four zoom levels. This guide goes deep on each one: what belongs there, who reads it, and the mistakes that blur the boundaries between them.
The C4 model is the most useful convention for architecture diagrams because it solves the one problem that ruins most of them: mixing abstraction levels. Here is how it works and how to apply it.
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