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Guides
Diagram layout engines: Minimizing hierarchical edge crossings
A deep dive into how a layout engine handles hierarchical diagram structures.
Guides
Generate diagrams programmatically
This article demonstrates how to generate diagrams programmatically with D2.
Guides
How to draw beautiful software architecture diagrams (part 1)
Part 1 of a series of articles on simple steps to follow to achieve functional beauty for your software architecture diagrams.
Guides
Web3's Ultimate Sources of Truth
An introduction to Oracles, the unnoticed power source behind the extreme growth of web3 applications in the past couple of years.
Product
Introducing Github Sync
Terrastruct’s Github Sync lets you automatically sync diagrams to a Github repository. Every hour, if there are changes to your diagram, a push is made by our bot. See how it works and why we think you'll love it.
Tips
Practical intermediate database tips
This guide is for people who know a little about how databases and SQL work, and are venturing into setting up a database and writing SQL for production for the first time.
Guides
Functional testing with your database in Go
This blog post describes a successful end-to-end testing setup that took some iterating to get to, and it's one I wish existed when I started with a Go API backend.
Tips
What frontend engineers should know about backend
A short list of topics that a frontend engineer should know about the backend
Tips
10 tips for using diagrams to ace the system design interview
An expert who's interviewed hundreds of candidates at top companies shares their tips on how to use diagrams effectively during a system architecture design interview.
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