OFA + AWS

#1

Post by dylanvee » Sat, Apr 13, 2013, 3:05 AM UTC

Re: OFA + AWS

#2

Post by vosper » Sat, Apr 13, 2013, 5:59 AM UTC

This is really great - I'd love to have a similar diagram for data flow and components of the systems I work on. It might not benefit engineers very much but it'd be fantastic for clients or some of the less technical people in the company.

I wonder how hard (I'm thinking hard?) it would be to have a tool for something like this, making the layout easy and revealing more and more information as you zoom in.

Even better if it was live and updating with system metrics.

Re: OFA + AWS

#3

Post by mappu » Sat, Apr 13, 2013, 6:03 AM UTC

That's an awesome diagram and quite a few servers (but latency kills the map-overlay experience, i think a static png or svg might have been better...) Interesting that servers are are either paired autoscaling over two AZs, or statically provisioned in three AZs - or am i mis-reading the diagram? Two entire mirrors for testing and staging must have become a pretty big cost.

For others outside the US confused about what the application actually does, and what the Narwhal in the testing/staging pictures refers to, this helped; http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/built-...

Re: OFA + AWS

#4

Post by chubot » Sat, Apr 13, 2013, 6:05 AM UTC

vosper wrote: post #2

This is really great - I'd love to have a similar diagram for data flow and components of the systems I work on. It might not benefit engineers very much but it'd be fantastic for clients or some of the less technical people in the company. I wonder how hard (I'm thinking hard?) it would be to have a tool for something like this, making the layout easy and revealing more and more information as you zoom in. Even bett…

Yeah it looks kind of cool, but kinda hard to read. Is this graphic based on something else?

I would like to see one where the labels are clearer. It doesn't seem like the 3D perspective adds any clarity.

Re: OFA + AWS

#5

Post by siliconc0w » Sat, Apr 13, 2013, 6:13 AM UTC

Anyone know of a good tool to make these types of diagrams? Preferably automatically? I've been meaning to create something that plugs into Chef and or nmap/netstat. In my experience, any diagram/inventory/whatever that isn't automatically updated invariably drifts from reality.

Re: OFA + AWS

#6

Post by jared314 » Sat, Apr 13, 2013, 6:19 AM UTC

The diagram follows the style of the AWS Reference Architectures[0]. I have yet to find a published set of diagram components that compare well to that style.

Edit: Juan Domenech[1] has a small custom made component pallet in png form. And, it looks like the original diagrams are custom Adobe Illustrator drawings[2].

[0] http://aws.amazon.com/architecture/

[1] http://blog.domenech.org/2012/06/aws-diagrams-palette-v10.ht...

[2] http://blog.domenech.org/2012/05/aws-diagrams.html