original publish date: 21st January, 2010
decades on …
In the Olde days, clouds in architecture diagrams used to mean groups of things too complicated to show on a high-level diagram.
Of course, nowadays, the cloud is a thing in its own right.
I haven’t had to see one of these in a while. I wonder what they’re using now for amorphous representations?
If I was still on speaking terms with any architects I’d ask them, but alas …
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Caption: The Inclemency Principle: the quality of an IT architecture diagram is proportional to the level of cloud cover.