[tlhunter]

I've been using the OneModel beta for a couple months now, watching as it matures.

Personally, I'm a huge draw.io fan, and I use the desktop app for many things. While draw.io is great for many types of diagrams it's certainly perfect at none of them. At the end of the day I find myself creating boxes of the same size, formatting lines to be the same style, and routing arrows all around the place.

That's what I love about OneModel: it's currently built as a tool to design system diagrams. I don't have to muck around with box sizes, OneModel knows that a box is a service. I don't have to muck around with line widths and arrow styles, OneModel knows that an arrow represents a service relationship. I don't need to route arrows, OneModel knows that an arrow shouldn't overlap a service icon.

I'm really looking forward to some of the obvious places this tool can go. Attach metadata to a service that points to a GitHub repo and get deployment status. Attach metadata to a line to specify protocol, jump to a firewall rule, or consume Prometheus metrics. Maybe we'll even be able to export a diagram as a Terraform script one day!