Interactive design lab
Architecture Diagram Builder
What is an architecture diagram?
An architecture diagram is a working model of component ownership, trust boundaries, request paths, and state. It should expose decisions clearly enough to test before implementation.
Step 1
Model
Place components with distinct responsibilities, connect each synchronous, asynchronous, or data path, and record capacity, replicas, and boundary ownership.
Step 2
Observe
Produce a reviewable topology where every dependency has a purpose and critical paths have explicit capacity and redundancy.
Step 3
Challenge
Use Challenge mode to raise traffic or fail a component, then resolve every overloaded, disconnected, unbounded, or single-replica critical node.
Architecture workbench
Build the path, then try to break it
Model responsibilities and connections, then inject traffic or a component failure to reveal hidden risk.
6 components5 links
System canvasArrow keys move selected nodes
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