Creating Ilograph: Interactive system architecture diagrams for Software, Cloud, DevOps and Security engineers

Richmond, VA
Joined July 2016
Interested in seeing how intricate real-world software systems look under the hood? See Ilograph's take on Immich, the self-hosted media management platform: app.ilograph.com/demo.ilogra…
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Ilograph is excited to release the official Ilograph Agent Skills, LLM agent skills for creating and maintaining Ilograph sequence diagrams of a codebase automatically. github.com/ilograph/skills
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By combining LLM's reasoning capabilities with Ilograph's interactivity, the sequence diagrams generated with these skills include far more detail normal. Further, each step include pointer to exact lines of code to improve understanding and auditability.
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See the link above for examples and installation and usage instructions!
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Ilograph will be releasing something big next week - watch this space
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Ilograph's release this week is a small maintenance release that improves Dark Mode styling:
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"Flow" diagrams that look like conveyor belts, where everything neatly flows from one component to the next, are almost always wrong. Processes rarely work this way:
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In reality, most system flows contain a lot of back-and-forth communication between components. The correct tool to document these kind of flows is the sequence diagram:
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Also new in Ilograph: sequence perspectives will now be ordered left-to-right to make the flow more natural. Previously, resources were ordered left-to-right based on which was referenced first. While simple, this often resulted in a lot of "twisted" layouts and backtracking:
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New in Ilograph: you can now lower a diagram's detail when zoomed into a subsequence. This helps simplify the flow even when focused on a narrow part of it:
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Make diagrams. Not too many. Mostly sequence diagrams.
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New in Ilograph: over 150 Dev icons now come built-in with Ilograph. These icons cover popular programming languages, databases, frameworks, and other tools:
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New in Ilograph: users can now minimize and expand individual resources
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Nested sequence diagrams
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Merge Sort is an efficient sorting algorithm that recursively divides an unsorted list, sorts the individual segments, and merges them to produce a fully sorted list
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Visualizing recursive merge sort with a recursive sequence diagram: app.ilograph.com/demo.ilogra…
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