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+# Modeling and Documentation
+
+## Overview
+
+This document covers architectural modeling techniques including the 4+1 View Model, UML diagrams, C4 Model, and automated documentation generation strategies.
+
+---
+
+## Knowledge
+
+### 4+1 View Model
+
+**What is the 4+1 View Model?**
+- Architectural description framework by Philippe Kruchten
+- Describes software architecture from multiple perspectives
+- Each view addresses specific stakeholder concerns
+- "+1" represents scenarios that tie views together
+
+**The Five Views**
+
+**1. Logical View (Functionality)**
+- **Purpose**: What the system does
+- **Audience**: End users, analysts
+- **Diagrams**: Class diagrams, state diagrams
+- **Focus**: Functional requirements, domain model
+- **Elements**: Classes, interfaces, packages, modules
+
+**2. Process View (Concurrency)**
+- **Purpose**: How the system executes
+- **Audience**: System integrators, performance engineers
+- **Diagrams**: Activity diagrams, sequence diagrams
+- **Focus**: Concurrency, distribution, performance, scalability
+- **Elements**: Processes, threads, tasks
+
+**3. Development View (Organization)**
+- **Purpose**: How the system is organized for development
+- **Audience**: Developers, project managers
+- **Diagrams**: Package diagrams, component diagrams
+- **Focus**: Software management, reusability
+- **Elements**: Modules, layers, subsystems
+
+**4. Physical View (Deployment)**
+- **Purpose**: Where the system runs
+- **Audience**: System engineers, operations
+- **Diagrams**: Deployment diagrams
+- **Focus**: Topology, installation, communication
+- **Elements**: Nodes, hardware, networks
+
+**5. Scenarios (+1)**
+- **Purpose**: Validate and illustrate architecture
+- **Audience**: All stakeholders
+- **Diagrams**: Use case diagrams, sequence diagrams
+- **Focus**: Key use cases, quality attributes
+- **Elements**: Use cases, scenarios, user stories
+
+### UML (Unified Modeling Language)
+
+**Structural Diagrams**
+
+**Class Diagram**
+- Shows classes, attributes, methods, relationships
+- Relationships: association, aggregation, composition, inheritance
+- Visibility: public (+), private (-), protected (#)
+- Multiplicity: 1, 0..1, 0..*, 1..*
+
+**Component Diagram**
+- Shows components and dependencies
+- Interfaces (provided/required)
+- Component boundaries
+- Deployment units
+
+**Package Diagram**
+- Shows package organization
+- Package dependencies
+- Namespace hierarchy
+- Module structure
+
+**Deployment Diagram**
+- Shows physical deployment
+- Nodes (hardware/execution environments)
+- Artifacts (deployable units)
+- Communication paths
+
+**Behavioral Diagrams**
+
+**Sequence Diagram**
+- Shows object interactions over time
+- Messages between objects
+- Lifelines and activation boxes
+- Return messages
+
+**Activity Diagram**
+- Shows workflow and business processes
+- Actions and decisions
+- Parallel flows (fork/join)
+- Swim lanes for responsibilities
+
+**State Machine Diagram**
+- Shows object states and transitions
+- States, events, guards, actions
+- Entry/exit actions
+- Nested states
+
+**Use Case Diagram**
+- Shows system functionality
+- Actors and use cases
+- Relationships: include, extend, generalization
+- System boundary
+
+### C4 Model
+
+**What is the C4 Model?**
+- Hierarchical set of diagrams for software architecture
+- Created by Simon Brown
+- Four levels of abstraction
+- Simple, accessible notation
+
+**Level 1: System Context Diagram**
+- **Purpose**: Big picture view
+- **Audience**: Everyone (technical and non-technical)
+- **Shows**: System, users, external systems
+- **Hides**: Internal details
+- **Notation**: Boxes and lines
+
+**Level 2: Container Diagram**
+- **Purpose**: High-level technology choices
+- **Audience**: Technical people inside and outside team
+- **Shows**: Containers (applications, data stores, microservices)
+- **Hides**: Implementation details
+- **Notation**: Boxes for containers, lines for interactions
+
+**Level 3: Component Diagram**
+- **Purpose**: Internal structure of containers
+- **Audience**: Software architects and developers
+- **Shows**: Components and their interactions
+- **Hides**: Code-level details
+- **Notation**: Boxes for components, lines for dependencies
+
+**Level 4: Code Diagram**
+- **Purpose**: Implementation details
+- **Audience**: Developers
+- **Shows**: Classes, interfaces, methods
+- **Hides**: Nothing (most detailed)
+- **Notation**: UML class diagrams, ER diagrams
+
+**C4 Notation**
+- **Person**: User or actor (blue)
+- **Software System**: Highest level of abstraction (gray)
+- **Container**: Deployable/executable unit (light blue)
+- **Component**: Grouping of related functionality (darker blue)
+- **Relationship**: Interaction with description and technology
+
+### Architecture Documentation
+
+**Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)**
+
+**ADR Structure**
+```markdown
+# ADR-NNN: Title
+
+## Status
+[Proposed | Accepted | Deprecated | Superseded]
+
+## Context
+What is the issue we're facing?
+What factors are driving this decision?
+
+## Decision
+What are we going to do?
+What is the change we're making?
+
+## Consequences
+What becomes easier or harder?
+What are the trade-offs?
+```
+
+**ADR Best Practices**
+- One decision per ADR
+- Immutable (create new ADR to reverse)
+- Version controlled with code
+- Short and focused
+- Include date and author
+
+**Documentation as Code**
+
+**Benefits**
+- Version controlled
+- Reviewed like code
+- Automated generation
+- Always up-to-date
+- Searchable
+
+**Tools**
+- **Markdown**: Simple, readable, version-controllable
+- **AsciiDoc**: More features than Markdown
+- **MkDocs**: Static site generator for documentation
+- **Docusaurus**: React-based documentation framework
+- **Sphinx**: Python documentation generator
+
+**Diagram as Code**
+
+**PlantUML**
+- Text-based UML diagrams
+- Supports all UML diagram types
+- Integration with IDEs and CI/CD
+- Version controllable
+
+**Mermaid**
+- Markdown-embedded diagrams
+- Flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams
+- Rendered in GitHub, GitLab, Notion
+- Simple syntax
+
+**Structurizr DSL**
+- C4 model diagrams as code
+- Workspace-based approach
+- Multiple output formats
+- Automatic layout
+
+---
+
+## Skills
+
+### Creating 4+1 Views
+
+**Skill: Develop Logical View**
+- Identify key abstractions (domain model)
+- Define class structure and relationships
+- Document design patterns used
+- Show module organization
+
+**Skill: Develop Process View**
+- Identify concurrent processes
+- Map process communication
+- Document synchronization mechanisms
+- Show runtime behavior
+
+**Skill: Develop Development View**
+- Organize code into layers/modules
+- Define package dependencies
+- Establish coding standards
+- Document build structure
+
+**Skill: Develop Physical View**
+- Map software to hardware
+- Define deployment topology
+- Document network configuration
+- Show scalability approach
+
+**Skill: Create Scenarios**
+- Identify key use cases
+- Create sequence diagrams
+- Validate architecture decisions
+- Demonstrate quality attributes
+
+### Creating UML Diagrams
+
+**Skill: Create Class Diagrams**
+- Identify classes and relationships
+- Define attributes and methods
+- Show inheritance hierarchies
+- Document design patterns
+
+**Skill: Create Sequence Diagrams**
+- Identify participants (objects/actors)
+- Show message flow over time
+- Document interaction logic
+- Highlight synchronous/asynchronous calls
+
+**Skill: Create Component Diagrams**
+- Identify major components
+- Define interfaces (provided/required)
+- Show dependencies
+- Document component responsibilities
+
+**Skill: Create Deployment Diagrams**
+- Map components to nodes
+- Show network topology
+- Document protocols
+- Identify deployment artifacts
+
+### Creating C4 Diagrams
+
+**Skill: Create System Context Diagram**
+- Identify system boundary
+- Show users and external systems
+- Document high-level interactions
+- Keep it simple (one page)
+
+**Skill: Create Container Diagram**
+- Identify containers (apps, databases, services)
+- Show technology choices
+- Document inter-container communication
+- Highlight deployment units
+
+**Skill: Create Component Diagram**
+- Break down containers into components
+- Show component responsibilities
+- Document dependencies
+- Identify key abstractions
+
+**Skill: Create Code Diagrams**
+- Show class structure
+- Document important relationships
+- Highlight design patterns
+- Focus on critical areas
+
+### Writing ADRs
+
+**Skill: Document Architectural Decisions**
+- Identify significant decisions
+- Capture context and constraints
+- Document alternatives considered
+- List consequences and trade-offs
+
+**Skill: Maintain ADR Log**
+- Number ADRs sequentially
+- Keep ADRs immutable
+- Link related ADRs
+- Update index/table of contents
+
+### Generating Documentation
+
+**Skill: Automate Diagram Generation**
+- Generate diagrams from code
+- Use PlantUML/Mermaid in CI/CD
+- Keep diagrams in sync with code
+- Version control diagram sources
+
+**Skill: Create Living Documentation**
+- Extract documentation from code
+- Generate API documentation
+- Automate architecture views
+- Keep documentation current
+
+---
+
+## Examples
+
+### Example 1: 4+1 Views for E-Commerce Platform
+
+**Logical View: Domain Model**
+
+```plantuml
+@startuml
+class Customer {
+  - id: UUID
+  - email: String
+  - name: String
+  + register()
+  + login()
+}
+
+class Product {
+  - id: UUID
+  - name: String
+  - price: Money
+  - inventory: int
+  + updatePrice()
+  + checkAvailability()
+}
+
+class Order {
+  - id: UUID
+  - customer: Customer
+  - items: OrderItem[]
+  - status: OrderStatus
+  - total: Money
+  + addItem()
+  + checkout()
+  + cancel()
+}
+
+class OrderItem {
+  - product: Product
+  - quantity: int
+  - price: Money
+}
+
+class Payment {
+  - id: UUID
+  - order: Order
+  - amount: Money
+  - status: PaymentStatus
+  + process()
+  + refund()
+}
+
+Customer "1" -- "*" Order
+Order "1" *-- "*" OrderItem
+OrderItem "*" -- "1" Product
+Order "1" -- "1" Payment
+@enduml
+```
+
+**Process View: Order Processing**
+
+```plantuml
+@startuml
+participant "Web App" as Web
+participant "Order Service" as Order
+participant "Inventory Service" as Inventory
+participant "Payment Service" as Payment
+participant "Event Bus" as Events
+
+Web -> Order: POST /orders
+activate Order
+
+Order -> Inventory: Check availability
+activate Inventory
+Inventory --> Order: Available
+deactivate Inventory
+
+Order -> Order: Create order (PENDING)
+Order -> Events: Publish OrderCreated
+activate Events
+Events --> Order: Acknowledged
+deactivate Events
+
+Order --> Web: 201 Created (order_id)
+deactivate Order
+
+Events -> Payment: OrderCreated event
+activate Payment
+Payment -> Payment: Process payment
+Payment -> Events: Publish PaymentProcessed
+deactivate Payment
+
+Events -> Order: PaymentProcessed event
+activate Order
+Order -> Order: Update status (CONFIRMED)
+Order -> Events: Publish OrderConfirmed
+deactivate Order
+
+Events -> Inventory: OrderConfirmed event
+activate Inventory
+Inventory -> Inventory: Reserve stock
+deactivate Inventory
+@enduml
+```
+
+**Development View: Package Structure**
+
+```plantuml
+@startuml
+package "Presentation Layer" {
+  [Web Controllers]
+  [API Gateway]
+}
+
+package "Application Layer" {
+  [Order Service]
+  [User Service]
+  [Product Service]
+  [Payment Service]
+}
+
+package "Domain Layer" {
+  [Order Domain]
+  [User Domain]
+  [Product Domain]
+  [Payment Domain]
+}
+
+package "Infrastructure Layer" {
+  [Repositories]
+  [Event Bus]
+  [External APIs]
+}
+
+[Web Controllers] --> [API Gateway]
+[API Gateway] --> [Order Service]
+[API Gateway] --> [User Service]
+[API Gateway] --> [Product Service]
+
+[Order Service] --> [Order Domain]
+[User Service] --> [User Domain]
+[Product Service] --> [Product Domain]
+[Payment Service] --> [Payment Domain]
+
+[Order Domain] --> [Repositories]
+[User Domain] --> [Repositories]
+[Product Domain] --> [Repositories]
+
+[Payment Service] --> [External APIs]
+[Order Service] --> [Event Bus]
+@enduml
+```
+
+**Physical View: Deployment**
+
+```plantuml
+@startuml
+node "Load Balancer" as LB {
+}
+
+node "Web Server 1" as Web1 {
+  [Web App]
+}
+
+node "Web Server 2" as Web2 {
+  [Web App]
+}
+
+node "API Gateway" as Gateway {
+  [Kong]
+}
+
+node "Kubernetes Cluster" as K8s {
+  node "Order Service Pod" {
+    [Order Service]
+  }
+  node "User Service Pod" {
+    [User Service]
+  }
+  node "Product Service Pod" {
+    [Product Service]
+  }
+  node "Payment Service Pod" {
+    [Payment Service]
+  }
+}
+
+database "PostgreSQL Cluster" as DB {
+  [Order DB]
+  [User DB]
+  [Product DB]
+}
+
+queue "Kafka Cluster" as Kafka {
+}
+
+LB --> Web1 : HTTPS
+LB --> Web2 : HTTPS
+Web1 --> Gateway : HTTPS
+Web2 --> Gateway : HTTPS
+Gateway --> K8s : HTTP
+K8s --> DB : TCP
+K8s --> Kafka : TCP
+@enduml
+```
+
+**Scenario: Place Order**
+
+```plantuml
+@startuml
+actor Customer
+participant "Web App" as Web
+participant "API Gateway" as Gateway
+participant "Order Service" as Order
+participant "Inventory Service" as Inventory
+participant "Payment Service" as Payment
+database "Order DB" as DB
+
+Customer -> Web: Add items to cart
+Customer -> Web: Click "Checkout"
+Web -> Gateway: POST /orders
+Gateway -> Order: Create order
+Order -> Inventory: Check stock
+Inventory --> Order: Stock available
+Order -> DB: Save order (PENDING)
+Order --> Gateway: Order created
+Gateway --> Web: 201 Created
+Web --> Customer: Show order confirmation
+
+Order -> Payment: Process payment
+Payment -> Payment: Call payment gateway
+Payment --> Order: Payment successful
+Order -> DB: Update status (CONFIRMED)
+Order -> Customer: Send confirmation email
+@enduml
+```
+
+### Example 2: C4 Model for Microservices Platform
+
+**Level 1: System Context**
+
+```
+┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
+│                                                             │
+│                    E-Commerce Platform                      │
+│                                                             │
+│  ┌──────────┐                                 ┌──────────┐ │
+│  │          │    Browse products              │          │ │
+│  │ Customer │────────────────────────────────▶│   Web    │ │
+│  │          │    Place orders                 │   App    │ │
+│  │          │◀────────────────────────────────│          │ │
+│  └──────────┘                                 └──────────┘ │
+│                                                             │
+│  ┌──────────┐                                 ┌──────────┐ │
+│  │          │    Manage products              │  Admin   │ │
+│  │  Admin   │────────────────────────────────▶│  Portal  │ │
+│  │          │    View reports                 │          │ │
+│  │          │◀────────────────────────────────│          │ │
+│  └──────────┘                                 └──────────┘ │
+│                                                             │
+└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
+                          │
+                          │ Process payments
+                          ▼
+                  ┌──────────────┐
+                  │   Payment    │
+                  │   Gateway    │
+                  │  (External)  │
+                  └──────────────┘
+```
+
+**Level 2: Container Diagram**
+
+```
+┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
+│                    E-Commerce Platform                          │
+│                                                                 │
+│  ┌──────────────┐         ┌──────────────┐                     │
+│  │   Web App    │         │ API Gateway  │                     │
+│  │   (React)    │────────▶│    (Kong)    │                     │
+│  └──────────────┘  HTTPS  └──────────────┘                     │
+│                                  │                              │
+│                                  │ HTTP                         │
+│                    ┌─────────────┼─────────────┐               │
+│                    │             │             │               │
+│                    ▼             ▼             ▼               │
+│            ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐           │
+│            │  Order   │  │ Product  │  │   User   │           │
+│            │ Service  │  │ Service  │  │ Service  │           │
+│            │ (Node.js)│  │ (Node.js)│  │ (Node.js)│           │
+│            └──────────┘  └──────────┘  └──────────┘           │
+│                 │             │             │                  │
+│                 │             │             │                  │
+│                 ▼             ▼             ▼                  │
+│            ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐           │
+│            │ Order DB │  │Product DB│  │ User DB  │           │
+│            │(Postgres)│  │(Postgres)│  │(Postgres)│           │
+│            └──────────┘  └──────────┘  └──────────┘           │
+│                                                                 │
+│            ┌────────────────────────────────────┐              │
+│            │        Event Bus (Kafka)           │              │
+│            └────────────────────────────────────┘              │
+│                                                                 │
+└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
+```
+
+**Level 3: Component Diagram (Order Service)**
+
+```
+┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
+│                    Order Service                            │
+│                                                             │
+│  ┌──────────────────┐                                       │
+│  │ Order Controller │                                       │
+│  │  (REST API)      │                                       │
+│  └────────┬─────────┘                                       │
+│           │                                                 │
+│           ▼                                                 │
+│  ┌──────────────────┐         ┌──────────────────┐         │
+│  │ Order Use Cases  │────────▶│  Order Domain    │         │
+│  │  (Application)   │         │   (Entities)     │         │
+│  └────────┬─────────┘         └──────────────────┘         │
+│           │                                                 │
+│           ▼                                                 │
+│  ┌──────────────────┐         ┌──────────────────┐         │
+│  │Order Repository  │────────▶│   Order DB       │         │
+│  │  (Interface)     │         │  (PostgreSQL)    │         │
+│  └──────────────────┘         └──────────────────┘         │
+│                                                             │
+│  ┌──────────────────┐         ┌──────────────────┐         │
+│  │  Event Publisher │────────▶│   Event Bus      │         │
+│  │                  │         │    (Kafka)       │         │
+│  └──────────────────┘         └──────────────────┘         │
+│                                                             │
+└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
+```
+
+### Example 3: PlantUML Sequence Diagram
+
+```plantuml
+@startuml
+title User Authentication Flow
+
+actor User
+participant "Web App" as Web
+participant "Auth Service" as Auth
+participant "User Service" as UserSvc
+database "User DB" as DB
+participant "Token Service" as Token
+
+User -> Web: Enter credentials
+activate Web
+
+Web -> Auth: POST /auth/login
+activate Auth
+
+Auth -> UserSvc: Validate credentials
+activate UserSvc
+
+UserSvc -> DB: SELECT user WHERE email = ?
+activate DB
+DB --> UserSvc: User record
+deactivate DB
+
+UserSvc -> UserSvc: Verify password hash
+UserSvc --> Auth: User validated
+deactivate UserSvc
+
+Auth -> Token: Generate JWT
+activate Token
+Token -> Token: Sign token with secret
+Token --> Auth: JWT token
+deactivate Token
+
+Auth --> Web: 200 OK (token, user)
+deactivate Auth
+
+Web -> Web: Store token in localStorage
+Web --> User: Redirect to dashboard
+deactivate Web
+
+== Subsequent Requests ==
+
+User -> Web: Access protected resource
+activate Web
+
+Web -> Auth: GET /api/orders\nAuthorization: Bearer <token>
+activate Auth
+
+Auth -> Token: Verify JWT
+activate Token
+Token -> Token: Validate signature
+Token -> Token: Check expiration
+Token --> Auth: Token valid (user_id)
+deactivate Token
+
+Auth -> UserSvc: GET /users/{user_id}/orders
+activate UserSvc
+UserSvc -> DB: SELECT orders WHERE user_id = ?
+activate DB
+DB --> UserSvc: Orders
+deactivate DB
+UserSvc --> Auth: Orders data
+deactivate UserSvc
+
+Auth --> Web: 200 OK (orders)
+deactivate Auth
+
+Web --> User: Display orders
+deactivate Web
+
+@enduml
+```
+
+### Example 4: Mermaid Class Diagram
+
+```mermaid
+classDiagram
+    class Order {
+        -UUID id
+        -Customer customer
+        -List~OrderItem~ items
+        -OrderStatus status
+        -Money total
+        +addItem(product, quantity)
+        +removeItem(productId)
+        +checkout()
+        +cancel()
+        +calculateTotal() Money
+    }
+
+    class OrderItem {
+        -Product product
+        -int quantity
+        -Money price
+        +updateQuantity(quantity)
+        +getSubtotal() Money
+    }
+
+    class Product {
+        -UUID id
+        -String name
+        -String description
+        -Money price
+        -int inventory
+        +updatePrice(price)
+        +checkAvailability(quantity) bool
+        +reserveStock(quantity)
+    }
+
+    class Customer {
+        -UUID id
+        -String email
+        -String name
+        -Address address
+        +register()
+        +updateProfile()
+    }
+
+    class Payment {
+        -UUID id
+        -Order order
+        -Money amount
+        -PaymentStatus status
+        -String transactionId
+        +process()
+        +refund()
+        +verify() bool
+    }
+
+    class OrderStatus {
+        <<enumeration>>
+        PENDING
+        CONFIRMED
+        SHIPPED
+        DELIVERED
+        CANCELLED
+    }
+
+    class PaymentStatus {
+        <<enumeration>>
+        PENDING
+        PROCESSING
+        COMPLETED
+        FAILED
+        REFUNDED
+    }
+
+    Order "1" *-- "*" OrderItem : contains
+    OrderItem "*" --> "1" Product : references
+    Order "*" --> "1" Customer : placed by
+    Order "1" --> "1" Payment : paid with
+    Order --> OrderStatus : has
+    Payment --> PaymentStatus : has
+```
+
+### Example 5: Architecture Decision Record
+
+```markdown
+# ADR-003: Use Event-Driven Architecture for Order Processing
+
+## Status
+Accepted
+
+## Date
+2026-02-05
+
+## Context
+Our current order processing system uses synchronous REST API calls between services:
+- Order Service → Inventory Service (check stock)
+- Order Service → Payment Service (process payment)
+- Order Service → Notification Service (send emails)
+
+**Problems:**
+1. **Tight Coupling**: Order Service depends on availability of all downstream services
+2. **Cascading Failures**: If Payment Service is down, entire order flow fails
+3. **Performance**: Synchronous calls increase latency (300ms+ per order)
+4. **Scalability**: Difficult to scale individual services independently
+
+**Requirements:**
+- Decouple services for independent deployment
+- Improve resilience (handle partial failures)
+- Reduce order processing latency
+- Enable asynchronous workflows
+
+## Decision
+We will implement event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka for order processing:
+
+**Architecture:**
+```
+Order Service → Kafka → [Inventory, Payment, Notification] Services
+```
+
+**Event Flow:**
+1. Order Service publishes `OrderCreated` event
+2. Inventory Service subscribes and reserves stock
+3. Payment Service subscribes and processes payment
+4. Notification Service subscribes and sends confirmation
+
+**Implementation:**
+- **Event Bus**: Apache Kafka (3 brokers, replication factor 3)
+- **Event Schema**: Avro with Schema Registry
+- **Retry Strategy**: Exponential backoff with dead letter queue
+- **Idempotency**: Event deduplication using event IDs
+- **Monitoring**: Kafka lag monitoring, event tracing
+
+**Event Schema Example:**
+```json
+{
+  "type": "record",
+  "name": "OrderCreated",
+  "fields": [
+    {"name": "orderId", "type": "string"},
+    {"name": "customerId", "type": "string"},
+    {"name": "items", "type": {"type": "array", "items": "OrderItem"}},
+    {"name": "total", "type": "double"},
+    {"name": "timestamp", "type": "long"}
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+## Consequences
+
+### Positive
+✅ **Loose Coupling**: Services don't need to know about each other
+✅ **Resilience**: Services can fail independently without affecting others
+✅ **Scalability**: Easy to add new consumers without changing producers
+✅ **Performance**: Asynchronous processing reduces latency (100ms vs 300ms)
+✅ **Audit Trail**: All events are logged in Kafka for debugging
+✅ **Flexibility**: Easy to add new event consumers (analytics, reporting)
+
+### Negative
+❌ **Complexity**: More moving parts (Kafka cluster, schema registry)
+❌ **Eventual Consistency**: Order status updates are not immediate
+❌ **Debugging**: Harder to trace requests across services
+❌ **Operational Overhead**: Need to manage Kafka infrastructure
+❌ **Learning Curve**: Team needs to learn event-driven patterns
+
+### Mitigation Strategies
+- **Distributed Tracing**: Implement OpenTelemetry for request tracing
+- **Event Versioning**: Use Avro schema evolution for backward compatibility
+- **Monitoring**: Set up Kafka lag alerts and event processing metrics
+- **Documentation**: Create event catalog documenting all events
+- **Testing**: Implement contract testing for event schemas
+
+## Alternatives Considered
+
+### Alternative 1: Keep Synchronous REST
+- **Pros**: Simpler, easier to debug, immediate consistency
+- **Cons**: Tight coupling, cascading failures, poor scalability
+- **Rejected**: Doesn't address core problems
+
+### Alternative 2: Use Message Queue (RabbitMQ)
+- **Pros**: Simpler than Kafka, good for task queues
+- **Cons**: Not designed for event streaming, limited retention
+- **Rejected**: Kafka better for event sourcing and replay
+
+### Alternative 3: Use AWS EventBridge
+- **Pros**: Managed service, no infrastructure
+- **Cons**: Vendor lock-in, higher cost at scale
+- **Rejected**: Want to avoid cloud vendor lock-in
+
+## Implementation Plan
+
+**Phase 1: Infrastructure (Week 1-2)**
+- Set up Kafka cluster (3 brokers)
+- Configure Schema Registry
+- Set up monitoring (Prometheus + Grafana)
+
+**Phase 2: Order Service (Week 3-4)**
+- Implement event publishing
+- Add event schema definitions
+- Update order creation flow
+
+**Phase 3: Consumer Services (Week 5-6)**
+- Migrate Inventory Service to event consumer
+- Migrate Payment Service to event consumer
+- Migrate Notification Service to event consumer
+
+**Phase 4: Testing & Rollout (Week 7-8)**
+- Integration testing
+- Load testing
+- Gradual rollout (10% → 50% → 100%)
+
+## References
+- "Designing Event-Driven Systems" by Ben Stopford
+- "Building Event-Driven Microservices" by Adam Bellemare
+- Kafka Documentation: https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/
+- Event-Driven Architecture Pattern: https://martinfowler.com/articles/201701-event-driven.html
+```
+
+### Example 6: Automated Documentation with MkDocs
+
+**mkdocs.yml**
+```yaml
+site_name: E-Commerce Platform Architecture
+site_description: Architecture documentation for e-commerce platform
+site_author: Architecture Team
+
+theme:
+  name: material
+  palette:
+    primary: indigo
+    accent: indigo
+  features:
+    - navigation.tabs
+    - navigation.sections
+    - toc.integrate
+    - search.suggest
+
+nav:
+  - Home: index.md
+  - Architecture:
+      - Overview: architecture/overview.md
+      - System Context: architecture/system-context.md
+      - Containers: architecture/containers.md
+      - Components: architecture/components.md
+  - Design Decisions:
+      - ADR Index: decisions/index.md
+      - ADR-001 Microservices: decisions/adr-001-microservices.md
+      - ADR-002 Database Per Service: decisions/adr-002-database-per-service.md
+      - ADR-003 Event-Driven: decisions/adr-003-event-driven.md
+  - API Documentation:
+      - Order Service: api/order-service.md
+      - Product Service: api/product-service.md
+      - User Service: api/user-service.md
+  - Deployment:
+      - Infrastructure: deployment/infrastructure.md
+      - CI/CD Pipeline: deployment/cicd.md
+      - Monitoring: deployment/monitoring.md
+
+plugins:
+  - search
+  - mermaid2
+  - plantuml
+
+markdown_extensions:
+  - admonition
+  - codehilite
+  - toc:
+      permalink: true
+  - pymdownx.superfences:
+      custom_fences:
+        - name: mermaid
+          class: mermaid
+          format: !!python/name:pymdownx.superfences.fence_code_format
+```
+
+**docs/architecture/overview.md**
+```markdown
+# Architecture Overview
+
+## System Context
+
+```mermaid
+graph TB
+    Customer[Customer]
+    Admin[Administrator]
+    Platform[E-Commerce Platform]
+    Payment[Payment Gateway]
+    Email[Email Service]
+
+    Customer -->|Browse & Purchase| Platform
+    Admin -->|Manage| Platform
+    Platform -->|Process Payments| Payment
+    Platform -->|Send Notifications| Email
+```
+
+## Container Diagram
+
+See [Containers](containers.md) for detailed container architecture.
+
+## Key Architectural Decisions
+
+- [ADR-001: Microservices Architecture](../decisions/adr-001-microservices.md)
+- [ADR-002: Database Per Service](../decisions/adr-002-database-per-service.md)
+- [ADR-003: Event-Driven Architecture](../decisions/adr-003-event-driven.md)
+
+## Quality Attributes
+
+| Attribute | Target | Measurement |
+|-----------|--------|-------------|
+| Availability | 99.9% | Uptime monitoring |
+| Latency | < 200ms | P95 response time |
+| Throughput | 1000 req/s | Load testing |
+| Scalability | 10x traffic | Horizontal scaling |
+```
+
+---
+
+## Understanding
+
+### When to Use 4+1 Views
+
+**Use 4+1 Views When:**
+- Complex system with multiple stakeholders
+- Need to address different concerns (functionality, deployment, development)
+- Large team with specialized roles
+- Regulatory documentation requirements
+
+**Don't Use 4+1 Views When:**
+- Simple system with few components
+- Small team (everyone understands everything)
+- Rapid prototyping phase
+- Overkill for the project size
+
+### When to Use UML vs C4
+
+**Use UML When:**
+- Detailed design documentation needed
+- Team familiar with UML
+- Tool support available
+- Formal modeling required
+
+**Use C4 When:**
+- Need simple, accessible diagrams
+- Communicating with non-technical stakeholders
+- Want to avoid UML complexity
+- Focus on architecture over design
+
+**Use Both:**
+- C4 for high-level architecture
+- UML for detailed design
+
+### ADR Best Practices
+
+**Do:**
+- Write ADRs for significant decisions
+- Keep ADRs short and focused
+- Version control with code
+- Link related ADRs
+- Include consequences (positive and negative)
+
+**Don't:**
+- Document trivial decisions
+- Modify existing ADRs (create new one)
+- Write ADRs after implementation
+- Skip alternatives considered
+- Forget to update ADR index
+
+### Documentation Automation
+
+**Automate:**
+- Diagram generation from code
+- API documentation from OpenAPI specs
+- Architecture views from models
+- Dependency graphs
+- Metrics and dashboards
+
+**Don't Automate:**
+- Architectural decisions (ADRs)
+- Design rationale
+- Trade-off analysis
+- Stakeholder concerns
+
+### Common Pitfalls
+
+**4+1 Views Pitfalls:**
+- Creating all views when not needed
+- Views not aligned with each other
+- Too much detail in early stages
+- Forgetting scenarios (+1)
+
+**UML Pitfalls:**
+- Over-complicating diagrams
+- Using wrong diagram type
+- Too much detail
+- Not keeping diagrams updated
+
+**C4 Pitfalls:**
+- Skipping levels (going straight to code)
+- Inconsistent notation
+- Too many elements per diagram
+- Not defining boundaries clearly
+
+**ADR Pitfalls:**
+- Writing ADRs after the fact
+- Not documenting alternatives
+- Modifying existing ADRs
+- Missing consequences
+
+---
+
+## References
+
+### 4+1 View Model
+- **Paper**: "Architectural Blueprints—The '4+1' View Model of Software Architecture" by Philippe Kruchten
+- **Book**: "Software Architecture in Practice" by Bass, Clements, Kazman
+
+### UML
+- **Official**: OMG UML Specification: https://www.omg.org/spec/UML/
+- **Books**:
+  - "UML Distilled" by Martin Fowler
+  - "Applying UML and Patterns" by Craig Larman
+- **Tools**: PlantUML, StarUML, Visual Paradigm
+
+### C4 Model
+- **Official**: https://c4model.com/
+- **Tools**:
+  - Structurizr: https://structurizr.com/
+  - PlantUML C4: https://github.com/plantuml-stdlib/C4-PlantUML
+  - Mermaid: https://mermaid-js.github.io/
+
+### ADRs
+- **GitHub**: https://adr.github.io/
+- **Tools**:
+  - adr-tools: https://github.com/npryce/adr-tools
+  - log4brains: https://github.com/thomvaill/log4brains
+- **Templates**: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture-decision-record
+
+### Documentation Tools
+- **MkDocs**: https://www.mkdocs.org/
+- **Docusaurus**: https://docusaurus.io/
+- **Sphinx**: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/
+- **AsciiDoc**: https://asciidoc.org/
+
+### Related Architecture Documents
+- [Fundamentals](./fundamentals.md) - Core architectural elements
+- [Tools and Methodologies](./tools-methodologies.md) - TOGAF, DDD, CI/CD
+- [Quality Attributes](./quality-attributes.md) - Non-functional requirements
+- [Microservices Architecture](./microservices-architecture.md) - Microservices patterns
+
+