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Re: Show HN: Terrastruct – A Diagramming Tool for Systems

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The layers are fun, but without some form of linking between elements and layers, it becomes hard to figure out what relationship there is between them. I'd also enjoy a slightly easier way to link things. Having to drag an arrow from the sidebar to the field, then manually link the two points is quite slow. Normally these systems have a sort of handle when you've selected something that allows you to make a new arro…

I’m working on both those things right now. Thank you for the feedback!

In general I wanted to see if people were receptive to this format of diagram before sinking more time into features, because there’s just no stopping point to diagramming features. Now that the concept has gotten some validation, the diagramming tool itself is going to be getting a lot better real soon. I’ll post updates here: https://twitter.com/terrastruct

Re: Show HN: Terrastruct – A Diagramming Tool for Systems

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post #100

The layers are fun, but without some form of linking between elements and layers, it becomes hard to figure out what relationship there is between them. I'd also enjoy a slightly easier way to link things. Having to drag an arrow from the sidebar to the field, then manually link the two points is quite slow. Normally these systems have a sort of handle when you've selected something that allows you to make a new arro…

I’m working on both those things right now. Thank you for the feedback! In general I wanted to see if people were receptive to this format of diagram before sinking more time into features, because there’s just no stopping point to diagramming features. Now that the concept has gotten some validation, the diagramming tool itself is going to be getting a lot better real soon. I’ll post updates here: https://twitter.co…

Thanks, I’ve subscribed, not that I look at Twitter that often :)

Re: Show HN: Terrastruct – A Diagramming Tool for Systems

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post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you give examples of the multiple views of the same data? Maybe you can use a past project where you needed this.

Sure, for a data integration we needed the “high level” architecture diagram for business users (eg. Database here, data flows into it from azure data factory, which reads it from here, etc). ...and the low level resource group names, networks, firewall rules, etc. so it would actually work. Exactly the same data, but less detail in the former. Then the same diagram again, only this time it shows the data flows for t…

Could you say that these layers are systems that make up a larger system? So, when you want to view a certain system, you see all its components as nodes. And if you click on a node, you can see its components.
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