Is there a text format for this? I’d be interested in seeing if we can generate these from trace data the way that we do for sequence diagrams and flow charts.
Show HN: Create diagrams of complex data flows in software systems
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#33Wishlist: Plug into existing tracing systems. Meaning if I use Datadog, I could use this to map my environment if I have tracing enabled.
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#34I love it, but I can't help but wonder why I almost never see complete or up to date diagrams in an enterprise or at scale software engineering setting, despite there being so many tools in this space (mermaid, uml, draw.io, graphviz, etc). I wonder what the barrier is or how to make tools like this fundamentally different so that we would see more adoption. This comes up frequently in the context of secure design re…
Honestly, I think you are using free (and old) diagramming tools, and you are getting why you pay for. There are plenty of tools designed specifically for documenting large systems, but they cost money.
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#35Congrats on the launch. Looks very clean.
I think the core concept is flawed, though. "Animated diagrams" are great for generating engagement on social media, but in practice an animated line doesn't tell you anything an arrow wouldn't. They just become a distraction. Plus, they make it harder to read a label on the line (and "real" diagrams should have those).
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#36When going to https://gg-charts.com all I got is a popup of 1 and displayed Hacked by NSF instead.
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#37Congrats on the launch. Looks very clean. I think the core concept is flawed, though. "Animated diagrams" are great for generating engagement on social media, but in practice an animated line doesn't tell you anything an arrow wouldn't. They just become a distraction. Plus, they make it harder to read a label on the line (and "real" diagrams should have those).
Such a wrong take. An animated line instantly brings you focus, and remove any guess work, and unease, when analysing a complex system.
And in this example , allow you to instatly replay part of the system in your head.
Keep working in the direction.
Re: Show HN: Create diagrams of complex data flows in software systems
#38Congrats on the launch. Looks very clean. I think the core concept is flawed, though. "Animated diagrams" are great for generating engagement on social media, but in practice an animated line doesn't tell you anything an arrow wouldn't. They just become a distraction. Plus, they make it harder to read a label on the line (and "real" diagrams should have those).
Such a wrong take. An animated line instantly brings you focus, and remove any guess work, and unease, when analysing a complex system. And in this example , allow you to instatly replay part of the system in your head. Keep working in the direction.
If you replace the moving green boxes with arrows, you get the same information (specifically, flow direction). And if the goal is to show the order/steps, then the right tool for the job is a sequence diagram [0]. Again, the animations are good for getting attention, but otherwise this is re-inventing the square wheel.
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#39Congrats on the launch. Looks very clean. I think the core concept is flawed, though. "Animated diagrams" are great for generating engagement on social media, but in practice an animated line doesn't tell you anything an arrow wouldn't. They just become a distraction. Plus, they make it harder to read a label on the line (and "real" diagrams should have those).
The animations turn these diagrams into hybrid between basic box-and-arrows diagrams and sequence diagrams, because the animations capture the temporal relationship between actions. They certainly can not be naively substituted with static arrows without loss of information.
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#40My laptop screamed after I played around in the redux demo. Must be something like infinite loop.
My algorithm to detect / resolve collisions has a bug in it. In some cases, a system will be displaced on the right, then on the left, then on the right... until it reaches a maximum number of allowed displacements. When it happens, moving a system feels very slow.
I intend to fix that bug (eh!) and I'm also thinking about moving this costly algorithm in web workers (+ parallelize it).