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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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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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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Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a vast library of practical solutions to common business problems. In this series, we focus on the architecture diagrams included in these solutions and attempt to expand and improve on them. Read the previous entry here. This article has been updated. Below is AWS’s architecture …

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a vast library of practical solutions to common business problems. In this series, we focus on the architecture diagrams included in these solutions and attempt to expand and improve on them. This article has been updated to include new perspectives. Below is AWS’s architecture …

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Ilograph is excited to announce the launch of the Ilograph Architecture Center. The Ilograph Architecture Center is the central location to find highly-detailed system architecture diagrams built with Ilograph. It is an excellent recource for those looking to learn about system design and architecture by example. …

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“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” – Ernest Hemingway This article introduces the concept of concrete diagramming models. It details what they are, how they’re created and used, and their benefits. It also compares and contrasts concrete …

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Late last week, Google Cloud released an architecture diagramming tool for its service. While its stable of developer advocates were predictably excited beyond all rationality, the tool itself doesn’t feel like a meaningful improvement over the technology it is built on (Excalidraw). Simon Brown, the creator of the C4 …

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Building a working system is a big part of an engineer’s job. Just as, if not more important, is documenting that system so others can understand, maintain, and expand it. That documentation can come in many forms, including source code, written documentation, and architecture diagrams. In this post, we’ll focus on …

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Expert system architecture diagrams (ESADs) are diagrams created to deliver long-term documentary value. Relative to casual “whiteboard” diagrams, they are more precise, comprehensive, and maintainable. ESADs promote and demonstrate clear thinking about technical systems. Because they are long-term documentation, ESADs …

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