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Newt
Autogenerate a .Net (C#/EF Core) data project (class library with entities and data contexts) from a Postgres database, plus Graphviz and SQL. (by kcartlidge)
The next step are tools like featdoc which let you define systems and interaction rules which then generate a (mermaid) sequence diagram.
Example at https://dev.azure.com/itmv/Coffee%20Shop/_wiki/wikis/Coffee-...
Project at https://github.com/Calpano/featdoc
Disclosure: I maintain this project
I use Graphviz dot syntax to configure entire cloud computing environments in the order they must be built. This is pipelines as code and infrastructure as code
It's very powerful! Not every organisation can bring up an entire environment with one command.
Here is a executable diagram of a build worker cloud nodes, Kubernetes, consul, vault, Debian package server, Java app, SSH bastion, Prometheus, grafana, DNS and security groups.
https://github.com/samsquire/mazzle/blob/master/docs/archite...
The tool also parallelises the build based on the graph so packer builds can run in parallel.
It also has a GUI but it's not ready for other people to use.
I love these words "As I continued that work, I've also started talking about the feasibility of creating a supercompiler." and thoughts already.
One of my ideas is a supercomputer compiler
I wrote about it here
https://github.com/samsquire/ideas4#112-compiler-as-a-servic...
Application performance monitoring, scheduling, control loops ala Kubernetes, parallelism, multithreading, data scheduling (shifting and sharing data to where it needs to be used), advanced caching and regeneration and container scheduling and binpacking and data layout scheduling could all be compiled by a supercompiler for extreme performance.
There is an offline version: https://www.diagrams.net (they had to change their name from draw.io recently). There is a download button right on the main page.
Graphviz is excellent. I use it for (amongst other things) generating diagrams of states and transitions, and also for automatically mapping choices as I write interactive fiction.
More generally I've added it to Newt [1], which is my in-progress C# code generator. It scans a PostgreSQL database to automatically generate a class library with models and EF Core data contexts. And as part of that it generates a dot notation Graphviz source file for showing the tables and relationships (the repo includes an example image [2]). The example only shows a couple of tables, but it gives an idea of what can be produced (and also shows the .dot source file that was created to produce it).