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Billy Pilger @ilographs

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

Joined July 2016
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7 More Common Mistakes in Architecture Diagrams

A rundown of seven more common mistakes is system architecture diagrams and how to fix them

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Avoid Fan Traps in System Diagrams

A disucssion on fan traps in system architecture diagramming

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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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High-detail architecture diagrams:
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Diagrams AI Can, and Cannot, Generate

An exploration of how well AI generates system architecture diagrams

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I created an ilograph tour: app.ilograph.com/@mikestaub/…

Ilograph Interactive Diagrams

Create interactive, multi-perspective diagrams with Ilograph

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Ilograph 1.8.4 (all environments) is a small update that adds scroll bars to resource descriptions when they get long.
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Spent this week deep-diving into the atproto.com source code. This is the first decentralized protocol I've ever seen that has a chance of scaling to billions of users. Very exciting stuff! #programming #tech #startups app.ilograph.com/@mikestaub/…
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In system architecture diagrams, arrows are just as important as boxes. Ilograph 1.8.1 (all environments) adds markdown support for arrow descriptions, so you can show all the details about how your systems interact:
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Ilograph 1.7.9 (all environments) is a small maintenance release that fixes arrows not rendering fully in some edge cases.
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New wordmark... can you spot the difference 😅
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Ilograph 1.7.8 (all environments) adds a foil effect to selected resources:
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Before and after: new arrow rendering on Ilograph
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Ilograph 1.7.6 (all environments) is an exciting new release that updates how arrows are rendered. When space permits, arrows will now route around other resources:
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Previously, these arrows would “jump” over resources that were in their way. The result was not always very pleasing:
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Happy diagramming! Please let me know if you see any issues with the new arrow layouts.
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A *major* layout change is coming to Ilograph! Instead of "jumping" arrows that are hard to see and/or overlap with other blocks, arrows between distant resources will navigate around the blocks between them. See the before and after in this example:
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Working on a new layout option
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