How to Draw Useful Technical Architecture Diagrams

Samples of five technical architecture diagrams with guidelines to facilitate digital solution design and implementation

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A technical architecture diagram provides a bird’s eye view of the infrastructure of your organisation. The diagram illustrates how components in a system interact with one another in the large scale of things.

There are various kinds of architecture diagrams serving different purposes. Usually, a digital solution architect will draft out high-level architecture diagrams to facilitate technology solution design. There are two main benefits of an architecture diagram:

1. They help with understanding — provides an overview of the available systems and interaction, which facilitates impact assessment from changes easily.
2. They improve communication and collaboration — aligns implementation plan across projects and stakeholders to reduce gaps in communication. A useful architecture diagram should address each of the stakeholder’s needs to a certain extent.

In this article, I’ll be covering five architecture diagrams which have served me well in designing and implementing digital solutions. They are:

• Application Architecture Diagram