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Enhancing Software Design with Diagrams as Code

Read my latest article "Enhancing Software Design with Diagrams as Code".

Summary:

🌐 Introduction to Diagrams as Code: A valuable tool for documenting system design, useful for various professionals. Focuses on PlantUML for system architecture diagrams.

💻 Diagrams as Code Methodology: Uses code for creating and managing diagrams, enabling scripting, version control, and integration into build pipelines. Features PlantUML, Mermaid, and Python-based tools.

🔀 UML Diagrams Example: Demonstrates creating a sequence diagram with PlantUML, showcasing ease of use and versatility.

🌐 Kubernetes & AWS Support in PlantUML: Provides examples of component diagrams for Kubernetes web services and AWS system architecture, utilizing PlantUML with custom icons.

🔗 Resources and Tools: Lists tutorials and tools for Diagrams as Code, including support for other cloud providers like GCP.

For more details, you can read the full article https://cloudnativeengineer.substack.com/p/enhancing-software-design-with-diagrams

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