Building and Maintaining System Block Diagrams with Ward Cunningham

Presented at the PNSQC Quality Jam in Portland, Oregon.

Modern development routinely builds systems that are a challenge to understand. We learn from incidents that surprise us. But how can we institutionalize what we learn? In my work as an architect at New Relic I've captured component relationships in large Neo4j property graphs. We query and render relevant relations as small for purpose system diagrams with canned queries that we pass around on Slack. More recently we’ve discovered a query-free way to assemble suitable diagrams from many sources merged as needed interactively. We’ve extended the approach by collecting multiple property graphs in JSON files created and maintained from source code annotations with GitHub actions.

Ward Cunningham has worked for and consulted to daring startups and huge corporations. He has served as CTO, Director, Fellow, Principal Engineer and Inventor. He is best known for creating wiki. He leads an open-source project rebuilding wiki to solve more complex sharing situations addressing some of societies toughest problems. Ward founded movements in object-oriented, agile software, extreme programming and pattern languages.

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