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State machine diagrams
From the course: Building a Cloud Architecture Diagram
State machine diagrams
- [Instructor] When we're looking at a UML state diagram, we're trying to model the behavior of a system as it transitions between specific states, at least two. Your workload will have multiple systems and multiple transitions to consider. The states that are being transitioned to are going to represent a specific condition or a situation in each system. The transitions are the events or the action that causes the change from one state to another. For example, you're monitoring a system, that system CPU utilization, you don't want it over 70%. Once it exceeds 70%, well, now what do I do? What's the action? I can't authenticate. Do you need to change your password? I'm carrying out this process, there's a situation. What do I do now? These sorts of quote unquote states. The elements used in the state diagram, the starting point, the initial state, a circle with an arrow pointing to what we're moving towards or…