2020-05-10: Analysis - The C4 model and Prime Arch

Written on 05/10/2020
Alice Båvner


The C4 model is appealing in several respects. It is a good starting point for application modeling with a reservation because it can be a bit too much of a code description at a detailed level rather than a functional description.

The C4 model was created by Simon Brown, an independent consultant and author specializing in software architecture. The C4 model is a formalization of Simon's way of visualizing software architecture, something that has evolved over the years.

The C4 model has been inspired by UML, Unified Modeling Language and can be seen as a simplification of the underlying concepts.

Read more about the analysis here:

The C4 model and Prime Arch

Case studies

The site c4model.com has several good examples of how to model applications.

We will study the different examples. As each example contains several diagrams that need to be analyzed and modeled in Prime Arch, we have chosen to divide them into different articles.



Read the introduction to the article series here:

Application modeling in C4