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Diagrams
Reference diagrams for common architecture patterns, redrawn as original, generic drawings: what each one shows, when to use it and the rules worth keeping.


DGM · Technical Architecture
Enterprise AI Assistant in CSDM
An AI assistant modeled as an ordinary CSDM 5 application: business app, service offerings, hosted model as a Data Service Instance, one planned agent flagged.


DGM · Technical Architecture
Online Store Checkout in CSDM
An online store's checkout in CSDM 5: capability, Business Application, production and test Application Services, software and hosts, under one offering.


DGM · Technical Architecture
HR Self-Service Portal in CSDM
A process-led CSDM 5 model: onboarding depends on an HR portal delivered as a service, and a planned payroll application sits beside it with nothing beneath.


DGM · Technical Architecture
Shared Database Platform in CSDM
A shared PostgreSQL platform in CSDM 5: one Technology Management Service Offering, two Application Services on one cluster, one of them outside the offering.


DGM · Technical Architecture
Azure Hub-Spoke Network
A hub-spoke network puts the firewall, gateway and shared services in one hub VNet and peers each workload spoke to it instead of to each other.


DGM · Technical Architecture
Azure Virtual Desktop at Scale
Azure Virtual Desktop splits a Microsoft-managed control plane from the host pools, profiles, images and network you run in your own subscription.


DGM · Technical Architecture
Identity Lifecycle Attribute Flow
An identity lifecycle flow lets HR events drive accounts: joiners get access, movers get updated and leavers get disabled, one source per attribute.


DGM · IT Standard
TLS Certificate Architecture Standard
A TLS certificate standard keeps one inventory with an owner for every certificate, issues only from approved CAs and automates renewal.


DGM · Business Process
Application Portfolio Metamodel Process
A portfolio harvest collects application data from discovery, contracts, usage and owners, matches it to one metamodel and publishes one record per app.


DGM · Business Process
Technology Intake Checklist
A technology intake process checks for reuse first, runs architecture and security reviews in parallel, and records every approval before onboarding.


DGM · General Architecture
Brainstorming Diagram
A brainstorming diagram puts one question in the center and groups ideas into themed branches, so gaps and open questions show up before design starts.