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3 questions in Context Diagrams.

  1. Context Diagrams beginner

    A 40-engineer SaaS product has a context diagram with six external systems on it. Roughly how many outbound dependencies does a product that size actually have, how would you count them without guessing, and what does the real number change?

    3 min answer context diagramdependenciesinventoryvendors
  2. Context Diagrams beginner Multiple choice

    A team draws their payment provider inside the system boundary on their context diagram because the provider's SDK runs inside their own service. During the first incident the on-call engineer spends 20 minutes trying to restart something the team does not own. What does the boundary line on a context diagram actually mean?

    3 min answer context-diagramsystem-boundarydependenciesincident-response
  3. Context Diagrams beginner

    Why is the system context diagram usually the most valuable single diagram, and what is most often left off it?

    2 min answer context-diagramscopedependenciestwilio