31–40 of 64 posts
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?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Have you considered PlantUML[0]? There's plenty of examples on planttext[1]. 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/
There is also the desire to have documents have more types of pictures/ drawings. A Swiss Army knife of drawing tools. In our case it's ok if some of the styles are not as powerful.
Thanks for the link!
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…
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…
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?
I use a mac and am not a big fan of opening up office products for simple/quick things
- Continue to spin out products to support common business use cases.
- Expose commonly used functionality from products via this WYSIWYG tool.
- Allow drag and drop programming by connecting services.
- Lambdas are the primary way that a business bridges gaps between OOB functionality and business requirements, but are still connected up via this WYSWYG tool once created.
It would be a while before it was useful to FAANG, but maybe mom and pop businesses could cheaply partner with AWS experts to ship custom software?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?