Devs need system design tools, not diagramming tools

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  • c4-notation

    Technical resources for using the C4 model for visualizing software architecture.

    It sounded like it was working up to a C4 pitch but never got there. It bears a look exactly for this post's title.

    https://c4model.com

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  • solverview

    solverl+LiveView examples

    I think the folks working on constraint programming with MiniZinc and Phoenix/LiveView have achieved a fairly practical solution.

    https://github.com/bokner/solverview

    https://github.com/bokner/solverl

    https://www.minizinc.org/

    YMMV, as I've yet to personally try a toy project with this approach. =3

  • solverl

    Erlang/Elixir interface to MiniZinc.

    I think the folks working on constraint programming with MiniZinc and Phoenix/LiveView have achieved a fairly practical solution.

    https://github.com/bokner/solverview

    https://github.com/bokner/solverl

    https://www.minizinc.org/

    YMMV, as I've yet to personally try a toy project with this approach. =3

  • plantuml

    Generate diagrams from textual description

    I feel like https://plantuml.com/ gets close to what I want by being able to make diagrams with code, but for system design what I really want is to be able to have diagrams generated directly from the code itself, maybe with some extra comments/annotations that help it along.

    Does anything like that exist already?

  • mermaid

    Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown

  • blueprint

    Zazuko Blueprint is an enterprise knowledge graph frontend and browser, designed to make RDF Knowledge Graphs accessible and customizable for domain users. (by zazuko)

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