Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques • Ashley Peacock & Stefan Hofer

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Ashley Peacock - Staff Software Engineer at Simply Business & Author of "Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques"
Stefan Hofer - Co-Author of "Domain Storytelling" & Requirements & DDD Expert at WPS
RESOURCES
Ashley
https://twitter.com/_ashleypeacock
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-peacock-133749120
https://medium.com/@ashley-peacock
https://github.com/apeacock1991

Stefan
https://twitter.com/hofstef
https://social.wps.de/@hofstef
https://github.com/hofstef
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hofstef
https://domainstorytelling.org

DESCRIPTION
Diagrams communicate relationships more directly and clearly than words ever can. Using only text-based markup, create meaningful and attractive diagrams to document your domain, visualize user flows, reveal system architecture at any desired level, or refactor your code. With the tools and techniques this book will give you, you’ll create a wide variety of diagrams in minutes, share them with others, and revise and update them immediately on the basis of feedback. Adding diagrams to your professional vocabulary will enable you to work through your ideas quickly when working on your own code or discussing a proposal with colleagues.
Expand your professional vocabulary by learning to communicate with diagrams as easily and naturally as speaking or writing. This book will provide you with the skills and tools to turn ideas into clear, meaningful, and attractive diagrams in mere minutes, using nothing more complicated than text-based markup. You’ll learn what kinds of diagrams are suited to each of a variety of use cases, from documenting your domain to understanding how complex code pieces together. Model your software’s architecture, creating diagrams focused broadly or narrowly, depending on the audience. Visualize application and user flows, design database schemas, and use diagrams iteratively to design and refactor your application. [...]
* Book description: © Pragmatic Programmers
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ashley Peacock • Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques
Stefan Hofer & Henning Schwentner • Domain Storytelling
Simon Brown • Software Architecture for Developers Vol. 2
Woods, Erder & Pureur • Continuous Architecture in Practice

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Chapter

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Diagrams as code (00:01:54)

3. Mermaid’s versatility (00:09:53)

4. Comparing PlantUML, Structurizr & Mermaid (00:17:42)

5. Benefits of Mermaid in code refactoring (00:24:07)

6. How 'Tomorrow' could look like (00:31:23)

7. Outro (00:35:04)