Describing architecture with the C4 model
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The C4 model draws a system at four zoom levels (context, containers, components, code) with a consistent notation; the first two levels are enough for most teams and can be kept as text-based diagrams next to the code.
Goal
Give newcomers and reviewers a shared picture of the system at the level of detail they need, without maintaining a wall of inconsistent diagrams.
Prerequisites
Agreement on the boundary of "the system" and on who its users and external dependencies are.
Steps
- Context diagram: the system as one box, the people who use it, and the external systems it talks to. Label every arrow with what flows and how.
- Container diagram: the deployable units inside the system (web application, database, worker, message broker) and their technologies and interactions. For this wiki: one application container, one PostgreSQL container, one reverse proxy.
- Component diagram (optional): the major building blocks inside one container and their responsibilities.
- Code-level diagrams only when generated from code; hand-drawn class diagrams go stale.
- Keep diagrams as text (a diagram-as-code tool) in the repository, reviewed with the changes that affect them.
Expected result
A two-diagram architecture overview that a new contributor reads in ten minutes and that is updated in the same pull request as the architecture change.
Limits and test basis
C4 describes static structure; runtime flows, deployment topology and data models need other views. The levels follow the cited model description.
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- The C4 model for visualising software architecture — 2026-09-22 확인: 접근 가능, 인용문 있음
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