Great software architecture charting tool
October 30, 2021
Great software architecture charting tool
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Lucidchart
We use it in engineering for software architecture diagrams of a microservices/serverless platform. We chart up microservice clusters, event flows, and deployment areas for wherein the cloud things are going to live, how the different areas connect, what has the source of truth is, etc. It also includes users, datastores, frontends.
- Data flow charting
- Service dependency charts
- Deployment diagrams
- Startup time could be quicker
- Sharing software architecture diagrams is simple.
- Embedding charts in confluence, slite, notion, etc to keep diagram and textual description close.
We embed the software architectural charts into the confluence documents describing those parts of the system, and into the descriptions of things to develop.
Do you think Lucidchart delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Lucidchart's feature set?
Yes
Did Lucidchart live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Lucidchart go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Lucidchart again?
Yes
I've mainly used PlantUML for the same things. Doing it graphically with ease to move things around makes it much quicker than the technical coding of data flowcharts.