Disclosure up front: I'm affiliated with diagram.now — I'm connected to the product. I'm posting...
Disclosure up front: I'm affiliated with diagram.now — I'm connected to the product. I'm posting this to get developer feedback on diagram import/export interoperability, not to pitch an install.
Most teams I've worked with don't have one source of truth for their diagrams. They have:
a few Mermaid blocks living in READMEs and Markdown docs,
an old Visio (.vsdx) or Lucidchart file someone made two reorgs ago,
a SQL schema that is secretly the "real" ERD,
I have a confession: I've spent more of my career arranging rectangles in Lucidchart than I'd like to...
Mermaid is a text-based diagramming tool for people who would rather write diagrams than drag boxes...
Drawing architecture diagrams by hand is tedious. You drag boxes around, align icons, fix arrows, and...
We've all been there: you’re in a classroom, a lab, or on a sandboxed device where you can't install...
I spend more time than I want to admit redrawing architecture diagrams every time a service moves....
Architecture diagrams have a habit of going stale the moment you redraw them. The boxes stop matching...
