What's the best web-based platform to visualize system architecture ?
For example, I want to draw/visualize how client hits http server, then http server hits database server and so on.
What kind of options do we have today ?
Thanks !
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I use this website (known as draw.io) for a couple of years to build architecture diagrams/flows. There are multiple reasons I like this platform:
- It's free (at least for most of the diagrams you may need to create)
- It has a desktop version, but the online version works really well (haven't noticed any significant lag)
- The number and type of the components/objects you can use is enough for most use-cases (that I had, at least)
- The objects can be arranged in a very granular way, by using the arrow keys (if the sticky connections feature doesn't help)
- You can export the diagram in different formats, you can even embed it in HTML if you need to.
Although this platform allows you to build sequence diagrams, a better option for this would be PlantUML. It's really straight forward to learn the language. Here is an example on how to build a sequence diagram.
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I found `Gliffy`, but your suggestions seems very interesting for me. This is answer. Thanks ! – pyargskwargs Mar 02 '21 at 09:52
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No worries! `Gliffy` is a good option too, I worked with it a few times, but I felt that draw.io fits better on my use-cases. Cheers! – Cosmin Ioniță Mar 02 '21 at 09:57
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Did you mean the interaction between client <> server <> database? If that is the case, a sequence diagram is the best UML diagram for you. And you may want to try https://ZenUML.com. (disclaimer: I created ZenUML because I love sequence diagrams.)
Here is an examplpe:
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