It's not a brag for me to say "I've been visualizing infrastructure since 2018" - it's the actual truth. That was the year I joined a lovely Portland-based startup called Stackery, which took infrastructure as code (IaC for those familiar) and generated an architecture diagram that looked like this:
The secret sauce was that it went both ways: drag and drop resources, get IaC back that you can then deploy. Though the startup has not existed since 2021, you can actually still play with the live editor ;)
Why am I bringing up ancient history? Well, Stackery went on to be acquired by AWS (something I can say now that I'm no longer employed by them) and became AWS Infrastructure Composer (née Application Composer), which takes infrastructure as code and generates an architecture diagram that looks like this:
And it also works both ways: drag and drop resources, get a Cloudformation template that you can then deploy. More importantly though, it's a powerful way to visually understand the distributed systems that make up serverless services and how they interact with each other.
Modern times
