Design Architecture

This is an opinionated proposal on how to creating an architecture. You may deviate from it at any point, but if you don't know where to start, this is a good starting point.

System Architecture vs. System Landscape

System Architecture and System Landscape provide different perspectives and different levels of detail of looking at an architecture.In the following process, the steps 1, 2 and - A.1 describe the creation or update of a System Landscape, while the steps 1,2 and B.1-B.7 need to be performed when creating the System Architecture.

Consider this as two alternate pathes, depending on what view on the system you are interested in.

Government Architecture / Enterprise Architecture provides an even more high-level and complete view of the systems within a government. For more on this, take a look at this GovStack document: ​​Public Administration Ecosystem Reference Architecture (PAERA) > 2.3 Role of Enterprise Architecture.

4 Analyze Requirements5 Start with the System Context

5-A.1 Update System Landscape

5-B.1 - Create Data Model & REST API5-B.2 Create Container Diagram5-B.3 Create Component Diagram5-B.4 Decide Technology Stack5-B.5 Create Developer Guidelines