I'm at #GOTO #Copenhagen with my Diagrams-as-Code with #AI masterclass. 🙌🏻 You'll leave with the knowledge you need to select the best notation for your context and to get experimenting with AI and automation in your diagrams & documentation.

Join me to compare #MermaidJS, #PlantUML, and #Structurizr, and how AI can and cannot help us with diagrams-as-code.
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Explore the more popular diagrams-as-code notations so that you can create diagrams-as-code as well as understand the diagrams-as-code that an LLM might generate for you.

#PlantUML , #Mermaid.js , & #Structurizr , with LLMs
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I'm excited to be teaching my #DiagramsAsCode with #AI workshop live and in-person at #GOTO #Copenhagen! 🙌

Join me to:
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💡 Recognise the limitations and useful use cases of using diagrams-as-code with LLMs

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Update on our endeavour with #structurizr :

Started modelling the system landscape. Worked really well and fast. We wanna let the teams add the parts of the system they are responsible for. Container views can be modularized into files making this easier.

Most of the work was the automated deployment of changes on #k8s with structurizr lite. Its doesn't seem to be designed for this.

The diagram looks really good and usable so far.

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Join this workshop to explore the more popular diagrams-as-code notations so that you can create diagrams-as-code as well as understand the diagrams-as-code that an LLM might generate for you.

#PlantUML , #Mermaid.js , & #Structurizr , with LLMs
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into #diagramsascode again the last days.

conclusions:
⚪ many small, early stage, single purpose approaches. tried #structurizr #d2 #mermaid a bit, came from #plantuml
⚪ all of them are sw centric, not extendable on user level

➡️ not really usable for #flightlevels inspired #worksystemsdesign

1/ Update on #structurizr vs c4-plantuml:

Structurizr:
* supports different views on the same diagram definition
* good mechanisms to split a diagram into files
* navigatable web view
* can enforce c4 conformity
* implicit dependencies

plantUml:
* idea plugin to directly render the diagram in the IDE
* no constraints on how you model your diagram

Both result in really nice, readable code and produce good looking diagrams.

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I'm actually using #structurizr for the first time to visualize a large system architecture. Looks really good. Small bummer is that there is no @intellijidea plugin to directly render the diagrams.

An alternative is c4-plantuml, a plugin for #plantuml - which can be rendered with an Idea plugin.

I will report more from this journey 🙂

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The more I use #Structurizr for #ArchitectureAsCode / #DiagramsAsCode the more I find small things that need to be searched up. This post is a collection of things that I need to remember so that I can find them easily: https://notepad.onghu.com/2024/structurizr-quick-notes-part1/

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