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Stefan Hofer and Ashley Peacock explore various diagrams-as-code approaches, focusing on PlantUML, Structurizr, and Mermaid diagramming tools. Ashley emphasizes Mermaid’s GitHub integration and syntax similarities with PlantUML, making migration seamless. Structurizr’s specialization in the C4 model and its unique DSL is highlighted. The conversation touches on the ease of code refactoring using Mermaid, making it […]

The presenter has spent an inordinate amount of time the past half decade across multiple companies working with very large, long-running enterprise software systems. Especially in long-running, constantly changing systems, you want the code and the software architecture to be easy to understand, relatively painless to extend or modify, and when advantageous, be simple to

This presentation takes you through a journey to explore some software architecture principles, forged through practice from real-world projects. You will learn strategies for mentoring development teams, scaling processes, and maximizing efficiency. With the right structures in place, software architects can guide teams into the “pit of success,” as Scott Guthrie likes to put it.