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📣 herodoturtle

Where are all the cool architecture diagrams?


I am on the hunt for aesthetically pleasing tech architecture diagrams.

Can be any tech stack or process, doesn't matter if it's outdated.

Hope you folks know of some?

The stuff I'm finding on Google image search is so bland!


  👤 ashik0 Accepted Answer ✓
Anything isometric really appeals to my eye.

There was a company I saw a few years ago integrating isometric systems architecture diagrams with real-time health status.

It could’ve been something like https://www.cloudcraft.co/ but I didn’t bookmark it back then.


👤 Khelavaster

👤 BerislavLopac
I have long thought of making a software tool for interactive C4 diagrams [0], but just a few weeks ago a colleague has discovered IcePanel [1], which is exactly that.

[0] https://c4model.com/

[1] https://icepanel.io/


👤 aiobe
Have a look at https://www.datamesh-architecture.com

Using icons makes a difference. created with draw.io sloppy style.


👤 d--b
Someone posted that the other day and it looks pretty good:

https://www.onemodel.app/


👤 BOOSTERHIDROGEN

👤 bwhaley
Perhaps you’d like the Gruntwork reference architecture diagram made with CloudCraft:

https://gruntwork.io/reference-architecture/


👤 justinludwig
Here's a few you might like: https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/tag/cloud/

👤 nickporter
I am on the hunt as well. This seems useful, not the prettiest but not the worst:

https://diagrams.mingrammer.com


👤 shoo
probably not what you're after -- there are some pretty cool maps of network infrastructure. think less "high level cartoon of logical architecture of web-app playing bingo with managed cloud services" and more "telecommunication network cables and equipment superimposed on geographical map of the area being served"

👤 jeffybefffy519
Draw.io is good and flexible

👤 liveoneggs
that's the problem with diagrams - they are outdated immediately