Ask HN: Visualizing software designs, especially of large systems (if at all)?

Re:Ask HN: Visualizing software designs, especially of large... by aetherlord on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @11:15AM (#31570498)

I'm a fan of https://www.ilograph.com/. I've only used it for a few small things, but the author has good samples, including a diagram of ilograph itself - https://app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.Ilograph/Request.

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Re:Ask HN: Visualizing software designs, especially of large... by dtjohnnymonkey on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @12:46PM (#31571737)

I use Ilograph pretty heavily both for documenting existing systems and designing new systems. The paradigm of “everything has context” makes diagrams much easier to understand.

I have even used it to render infrastructure diagrams of actual production systems (clusters, load balancers, etc)

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Re:Ask HN: Visualizing software designs, especially of large... by tra3 on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @12:45PM (#31571728)

This looks very cool. It looks similar to the C4 model, where you can have nested components of arbitrary depth ("containers" in C4 parlance).

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Re:Ask HN: Visualizing software designs, especially of large... by rswail on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @11:55AM (#31571054)

This looks interesting :) Not sure about YAML, been burnt with OpenAPI, but it looks good.

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