From the course: Building a Cloud Architecture Diagram

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Class diagrams

Class diagrams

- Let's take a look at UML Class diagrams. Now to be fair, these get pretty complicated, and they're specialized for development, but we're going to cover them anyways because they fit into some of the diagrams that would be supported in enterprise architecture, and you might very well have these at different layers for different audiences when you're designing your cloud architecture diagrams. Ultimately what they provide is a visual workflow of software that is defined as object-oriented software. It's been around for a long time, and the idea is to illustrate the overall structure of a software program in detail. And you should create class diagrams before you start coding. This will result in much cleaner code because you can present your diagrams to the team or to developers and decide on responsibilities, who's going to create what, and you'll also get feedback which will improve what you're trying to create. The…

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