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TALA Is Open-Source

TALA Is Open-Source

alixanderwang

Comments (10)

  • ricardobeat
    The first few graphs are impressive, it does a much tidier job. The Go queue one is objectively worse - the other versions keep services and users grouped together, as well as a left-to-right flow. The TALA version makes it look more complicated than it is.
  • aidenn0
    That's nice; my first impressions of D2 were much worse than they should have been since the default layout engine is pretty terrible for some types of graphs; ELK is a big improvement, and when I tried TALA it was sometimes a big improvement over ELK.I never purchased TALA though because I don't use D2 at work, and the costs of buying TALA were above my "fun money" amount.
  • sotilrac
    I'm so happy about this, we desperately need better auto layout. I'll be adding it to Daedalus
  • ashiban
    Thanks for that. What do you think are the key heuristics / concepts that made it standout or be more appropriate for architecture diagrams?
  • boguscoder
    Would integrating/implementing this into graphviz be a good move or mixing wrong things?
  • Taikonerd
    Always happy to see D2 on here! In my last job, I had to do several architecture diagrams. Learning D2 took maybe 1 day, and saved me much more time than that.
  • azriel91
    before discovering d2, I wrote / vibe coded my own diagram generator: https://azriel.im/dispositionthen after discovering it, I was too invested in my own project to switch -- the complexity in positioning nodes, routing edges to not draw over labels, taking into account nesting and rank dir gave me an appreciation for how hard these can be, and I kinda wanted my own version (plus other features)
  • bbkane
    I just started diagramming with d2- I'll have to try this one out!
  • ChrisArchitect
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