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Common mistakes in architecture diagrams (2020)
When creating a technical architecture diagram, your goal is to give understanding to your audience. You want to honestly inform viewers about your system …
While its abstraction is consistent, this architecture diagram includes resources, a region, a VPC, auto-scaling groups, subnets, and availability zones. Including one or two levels of composition (though not to the point of showing too many concerns, see #3) provides both organization and essential contextual information to those who are new to your architecture: Include ample prose alongside your diagrams to introduce your architecture and highlight critical design choices and their reasoning.
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