Friday, July 29, 2011

Icons/symbols to draw pretty Azure design diagrams...

David Pallmann's Technology Blog - Windows Azure Design Patterns, Part 1: Architectural Symbols

"Today I am beginning a new article series on Windows Azure design patterns, which has been an interest of mine since Windows Azure debuted in 2008. Design patterns are usually expressed in a design pattern language which may also be accompanied by a symbology. In this first article we’ll describe the symbology we’ll be using in this series to represent Windows Azure design patterns in architectural diagrams, also used on my AzureDesignPatterns.com web site and in my upcoming book, The Windows Azure Handbook, Volume 2: Architecture.

We’ll explain the symbology progressively, but let’s start with an example to give you an idea of what we’re talking about. This diagram shows a hosted service with a web role and a worker role that uses a SQL Azure database. Now let’s take a look at the basic elements of the symbology, and by the end of the article we’ll look at a more complex example.

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If you doing cloud design documentation (or apps and such) these PNG's might come in handy.

Here's a snap;

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