Ask HN: What tools do you use to diagram micro-service architectures?

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Post by brookesey » Mon, Mar 07, 2016, 10:30 AM UTC

Any open source or browser based tools you guys use to document micro-service systems and all the connections and dataflows?

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to diagram micro-service architectures?

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Post by lookfwd » Mon, Mar 07, 2016, 10:55 AM UTC

=> https://gephi.org/ + log aggregation/tracing - see http://opentracing.io/ and http://zipkin.io/

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to diagram micro-service architectures?

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Post by insert_silence » Mon, Mar 07, 2016, 12:22 PM UTC

Most of the time I'm using PlantUML [1], since it can live in the same place as the source code, moreover there is a IntelliJ Idea plugin which adds PlantUML support to the IDE [2], nevertheless I think there should be plugins available for all major IDEs.

[1] http://plantuml.com/

[2] https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/?idea&id=7017

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to diagram micro-service architectures?

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Post by MalcolmDiggs » Mon, Mar 07, 2016, 12:39 PM UTC

I like Lucidchart (http://lucidchart.com).

Does what I need, and their google-drive integration makes it easy to keep track of the diagrams and share them with folks.

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to diagram micro-service architectures?

#5

Post by pkorzeniewski » Mon, Mar 07, 2016, 2:32 PM UTC

I recommend https://draw.io/ - it's easy to use, doesn't require an account and you can load/save diagrams from Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox (or, of course, from your device). I've created a lot of diagrams with it and it "just works" :)

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to diagram micro-service architectures?

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Post by egor83 » Mon, Mar 07, 2016, 5:58 PM UTC

pkorzeniewski wrote: post #5

I recommend https://draw.io/ - it's easy to use, doesn't require an account and you can load/save diagrams from Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox (or, of course, from your device). I've created a lot of diagrams with it and it "just works" :)

Seconding draw.io, have been using it somewhat actively recently, do recommend.

Seamless integration with GDrive, lots of existing templates, great experience overall.

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to diagram micro-service architectures?

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Post by wprapido » Mon, Mar 07, 2016, 10:46 PM UTC

libreoffice draw works fine for most of my charting needs. even google drawings is not that bad. draw.io is plain awesome!

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to diagram micro-service architectures?

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Post by lsiebert » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 5:21 AM UTC

www.yuml.me is text based, which I prefer

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use to diagram micro-service architectures?

#9

Post by ryanicle » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 3:34 PM UTC

I use either https://draw.io or Giffy Diagrams for Chrome extension.