By now, generative artificial intelligence’s ability to create text and images is well known. Generating system architecture diagrams would seem to be a natural extension of this. In this article, we examine three use cases for AI-generated system architecture diagrams. We will evaluate AI’s ability to create generic …

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Ilograph 1.8.1 is now available in all environments (web, desktop, and Confluence Cloud). It includes the following enhancements: Markdown support in arrow descriptions When diagramming, the arrows between resources are just as important as the resources themselves. This is why we’ve added enhanced support for …

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Ilograph 1.7.6 is now available in all environments (web, desktop, and Confluence Cloud). It includes the following enhancements: Routed arrows In one of the biggest layout improvements in Ilograph’s history, arrows will now route around other resources when space permits: Previously, these arrows would …

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Welcome. This article shows how to generate architecture diagrams from resources in an AWS account (or multiple accounts). The techniques used here make use of only free tools and don’t require giving access to your AWS account(s). The diagrams will be interactive and show the resources from multiple perspectives: …

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Ilograph 1.7.3 is now available in all environments (web, desktop, and Confluence Cloud). It includes the following enhancements: Truncated names To improve visual consistency, resource names will now truncate in certain scenarios, such as when they are written vertically and have an icon: Resource names are truncated …

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Ilograph 1.7.1 is now available in all environments (web, desktop, and Confluence Cloud). It includes the following enhancements: Relative references When defining relations, resources can now be referenced relative to other resources. This can significantly cut down on repetition when creating perspectives with lots …

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Ilograph 1.6.9 is now available in all environments (web, desktop, and Confluence Cloud). It includes the following enhancements: Truncated labels To improve layouts and ensure that labels are readable, very long arrow labels will now be truncated. When truncated, the full label can be seen on mouse-over (or, on …

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Ilograph 1.6.8 is now available in all environments (web, desktop, and Confluence Cloud). It includes the following enhancements: Pinned resources Ilograph diagram viewers can now pin resources while browsing diagrams. When a resource is pinned, only resources that are related to it will be visible; unrelated resources …

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Ilograph 1.6.7 is now available in all environments (web, desktop, and Confluence Cloud). It includes the following enhancements: Find resources Ilograph diagram viewers can now search for resources in the current perspective. This feature can be found under the top-right menu (under the ‘Go’ menu in …

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In this article, we’ll look at the importance of contexts in system architecture diagrams and recent enhancements to how they are handled in Ilograph. Defining diagram “contexts” System architecture diagrams visually document complex technical systems. Most come in the form of either relational or sequence …

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