alt Hacker NewsThe worst ones are diagrams that look clean but hide all the decisions that actually matter. A messy diagram that shows the real tradeoffs is more useful than a pretty one that lies
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01HNNWZ0MV43FF • today at 2:28 PM
The Slack notification flowchart is an old favorite: https://slack.engineering/reducing-slacks-memory-footprint/
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Once worked with a systems architect who intentionally disorganized their flow diagrams by just moving nodes in their flow to random places (hi Dan!). The only reason I can think of why he'd do that is to maintain job security by keeping the junior apps folk confused.