Why would you use this over diagrams.net/draw.io, which integrates with far more tools (Google Apps, Atlassian tools, Sphinx) and can take text input (Mermaid), and embed editable copies in other file formats like .svg/.png?
Diagram Maker: Open sourcing IoT visualization
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#12re-inventing graphviz
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#13Tools like this can be very useful in supporting operational use cases in addition to documentation. The tricky part with cloud is how to effectively visualize infrastructure that is composed of a variety of services and attributes. If you have a VPC in each of two regions with dynamodb, s3, ecs, alb, third party providers with access via cross account roles, etc etc it gets tricky to sensibly lay out and demonstrate relationships between the indivdiual components.
Hopefully this will get traction and they will start to build in some of this intelligence and perspectives into the application (presumably as a plugin).
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#14Why would you use this over diagrams.net/draw.io, which integrates with far more tools (Google Apps, Atlassian tools, Sphinx) and can take text input (Mermaid), and embed editable copies in other file formats like .svg/.png?
The target audience of this tool consists of application developers that want to create new applications that require their end users to author graph like structures. They can use this tool and avoid re-implementing basic interactive features like drag & drop, panel management, zooming, undo/redo, etc. Examples of such applications within AWS would be AWS IoT events & AWS IoT Things graph (existing customers), AWS Step functions, AWS Cloudformation (not using the library as of now). Examples of such applications outside AWS would be: https://www.stackery.io/, https://www.voiceflow.com/, https://parabola.io/, etc.
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#15From the screenshots this looked like it was built with [0] or [1] but from their repo it's actually completely homegrown.
[0] https://github.com/uber/react-digraph [1] https://github.com/wbkd/react-flow
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#16For people who are curious to see some of the functionality, there are a few demos linked from the documentation here:
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#17Why would you use this over diagrams.net/draw.io, which integrates with far more tools (Google Apps, Atlassian tools, Sphinx) and can take text input (Mermaid), and embed editable copies in other file formats like .svg/.png?
The target audience of this tool consists of application developers that want to create new applications that require their end users to author graph like structures. They can use this tool and avoid re-implementing basic interactive features like drag & drop, panel management, zooming, undo/redo, etc. Examples of such applications within AWS would be AWS IoT events & AWS IoT Things graph (existing customers), AWS St…
The new AWS glue builder interface uses this as well
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#18Tools like this can be very useful in supporting operational use cases in addition to documentation. The tricky part with cloud is how to effectively visualize infrastructure that is composed of a variety of services and attributes. If you have a VPC in each of two regions with dynamodb, s3, ecs, alb, third party providers with access via cross account roles, etc etc it gets tricky to sensibly lay out and demonstrate…
Right. When a tool like this can actually "compose" a dataflow using cloud native components (lamdbas, messaging, storage) in real time, this has potential to be super powerful.
Think of, for example, Apache NiFi [1] but instead of the components being constrained to a single JVM execution, the components are realized as AWS or Azure services. That "operational view" of your architecture would be super neat, especially when statistics about each component can be visualized in real time.
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#19Tools like this can be very useful in supporting operational use cases in addition to documentation. The tricky part with cloud is how to effectively visualize infrastructure that is composed of a variety of services and attributes. If you have a VPC in each of two regions with dynamodb, s3, ecs, alb, third party providers with access via cross account roles, etc etc it gets tricky to sensibly lay out and demonstrate…
Right. When a tool like this can actually "compose" a dataflow using cloud native components (lamdbas, messaging, storage) in real time, this has potential to be super powerful. Think of, for example, Apache NiFi [1] but instead of the components being constrained to a single JVM execution, the components are realized as AWS or Azure services. That "operational view" of your architecture would be super neat, especial…
That's honestly eerily close to what is in my head with what we're building for Refinery. It's a rough nut to crack but we're trying!
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right. When a tool like this can actually "compose" a dataflow using cloud native components (lamdbas, messaging, storage) in real time, this has potential to be super powerful. Think of, for example, Apache NiFi [1] but instead of the components being constrained to a single JVM execution, the components are realized as AWS or Azure services. That "operational view" of your architecture would be super neat, especial…
That's honestly eerily close to what is in my head with what we're building for Refinery. It's a rough nut to crack but we're trying! https://refinery.io
Neat. Thanks for the link!