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Sequence diagram

Sequence diagram

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Sequence diagram

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- [Instructor] A sequence diagram is giving us details about the sequence of our systems, visualizing interactions between workloads, business processes within those workloads, all hosted on cloud infrastructure. And these interactions are over a period of time. Once they've created a sequence diagram, it will help me and other members of my team understand the flow of control and any dependencies that show up that have to be dealt with with different parts of the system. These dependencies may have to be redesigned to be more durable and reliable, maybe to avoid single points of failure. We can also identify any performance bottlenecks and any other issues that are going on. Now, the elements that we will see in a sequence diagram, there's not that many of them, we have lifelines, a vertical line, a broken vertical line defining the instance of interaction and we have the messaging communicating between objects or between…

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