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I was hoping something better than Mermaid. Mermaid is great, but esp. its Gantt chart is too simplistic.
Your point about Gantt carts may be right for you, but for our simple timelines it's good. The real winner for me was the state diagrams. Thanks!
This seems very specific to their IoT products, so it's weird they gave it such a generic name, like "Diagram Maker", which makes it seem like a competitor for something more generally capable like diagrams.net/draw.io.
This tool is not limited to AWS IoT products even though that is where this tool was born. You can use this tool for rendering any graph like structure like diagrams, flowcharts, etc. See more details here: https://awslabs.github.io/diagram-maker/why/features.html#da... .
Tools 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…
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?
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…
I was hoping something better than Mermaid. Mermaid is great, but esp. its Gantt chart is too simplistic.
Hey wiradikusuma, thanks for the reference to Mermaid. I've been looking for a week for something like this to let us drop diagrams into our internal website. This looks like it will do about everything we want. Your point about Gantt carts may be right for you, but for our simple timelines it's good. The real winner for me was the state diagrams. Thanks!
It's my go-to tool whenever I need to document something visually, whenever I have a meeting with my peers and I want to get them quickly up to speed with the process I have in mind, I just create a quick sequence diagram and we can hit the ground running.
[0] https://plantuml.com/state-diagram [1] https://www.planttext.com/
I've tried so many of these diagramming tools (mermaid, draw.io, figma, lucid chart). But none of them seem to ever match the effectiveness and simplicity of PowerPoint. Why reinvent the wheel so many times?
If PowerPoint works for you, that's great! I have no problem with it. But it doesn't work for me. There is a true need in this area for better diagramming tools. Plantuml and graphviz were good ideas, for which we still lack a killer execution/implementation.
I've tried so many of these diagramming tools (mermaid, draw.io, figma, lucid chart). But none of them seem to ever match the effectiveness and simplicity of PowerPoint. Why reinvent the wheel so many times?
PowerPoint is anything but simple. If PowerPoint works for you, that's great! I have no problem with it. But it doesn't work for me. There is a true need in this area for better diagramming tools. Plantuml and graphviz were good ideas, for which we still lack a killer execution/implementation.