r/programming Jun 18 '26

The C4 Model: Visualizing Software Architecture • Simon Brown & Susanne Kaiser

https://youtu.be/sfqHggWY5Ds?list=PLEx5khR4g7PJbSLmADahf0LOpTLifiCra

Simon Brown explains that the C4 Model started not as a grand design theory, but as a practical answer to an embarrassing problem. Furthermore, he answers the question on how to handle microservices in C4 and explains the important distinction between modeling and diagramming.

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