C4 model

Paulo Caroli

22 Aug 2020 | Lean Inception, Inception Activities

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C4 is a model created by Simon Brown for depicting a software architecture by the 4 Cs — Context, Container, Component and Code–, as per the following definitions:

  • Context – the highest level of abstraction and describes something that delivers value to its users.
  • Container – something that needs to be running in order for the overall software system to work (e.g.: a Server-side web application, a Microservice, a Serverless function, a File system)
  • Component – a collection of implementation classes behind an interface.
  • Code – the code elements (e.g. classes, interfaces, objects, functions, database tables, etc) within the component in scope.

C4 model for visualising software architecture – Image source: https://c4model.com/

I have used C4 model as an activity in technical inception sessions, for detailing the technical aspects for the proposed software solution.

The 4 Cs terminology (context, containers, components and code) is commonly used by many organisations and many types of software. Although, it is important to note that  ‘container’ is not the docker container. Two examples of containers: (1) a micro-service, along with its data store, and (2) a monolithic application with a number of components running inside it

For more about the C4 model, check out https://c4model.com/

 

 

 

Paulo Caroli

Paulo Caroli is the author of the best-selling book “Lean Inception: How to Align People and Build the Right Product” (the first on a series of books about Lean Strategy and Delivery). He's also the creator of FunRetrospectives.com , a site and book about retrospectives, futurospectives and team building activities. Caroli writes on this blog frequently. Receive the next post in your email. Sign up here .
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